Snr Lecturer @warstudies|Research Director @gwupoe | Author Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki's Western Jihad (HUP, 2020) Homegrown: ISIS in America (IB Tauris, 2020)
Mar 2, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I am currently researching anti blasphemy extremism in the UK and it's a pretty bleak picture. Incidents like Wakefield and Batley are now becoming a regular part of life in Britain. Unfortunately, this is not just because of Islamists or 'extremists' 1/
For a number of reasons, many have come to view a particularly honour obsessed form of Islam as the only form of Islam that needs to be respected and listened to. It has a pretty widespread following in the UK and comes almost entirely from from Pakistan 2/
