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Tony Blair issues warning on radical Islam
Former prime minister Tony Blair warns that the greatest threat to world security is Islamist extremism. He says: “The Middle East is in turmoil. The threat of this radical Islam is not abating.”
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Gove criticised over ‘Islamist plot’ schools investigator
Senior police figures criticise Michael Gove’s “desperately unfortunate” decision to appoint a former anti-terror chief to investigate an alleged Islamist plot to take over 25 schools in Birmingham.
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Journalist hostages freed by Syrian Islamist group
Two Spanish journalists kidnapped by an al-Qaeda-linked militant group for more than six months have been reunited with their families.
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Boko Haram Islamist militants in Nigerian ‘village massacre’
A group of suspected Islamist fighters has killed at least 90 people in an attack on a remote village in northeast Nigeria on Sunday.
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Is Egypt’s revolution turning into an Islamist insurgency?
A militant Islamist group, but not the Muslim Brotherhood, claims responsibility for four bombs in Cairo which kill six people and injure many more. Is Egypt on the brink of a new wave of violence?
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British Islamists guilty of murdering Lee Rigby
As Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale are found guilty of murdering Lee Rigby, the radical cleric who was Adebolajo’s mentor after he converted tells Channel 4 News he is “proud” of what he did.
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Bangladesh executes Islamist opposition leader Mollah
After the supreme court rejects his lawyers’ last-minute appeal, Islamist opposition leader Abdul Quader Mollah is hanged at Dhaka central prison for war crimes committed in 1971.
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Islamists ‘seize vital Syria oil field’
Rebels linked to al-Qaeda reportedly take the largest oil field in eastern Syria, leaving the Assad regime dependent on oil imports.
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Niqab ban: a safety precaution or Islamophobia? Video
Two students in Birmingham are banned from school for wearing the niqab. Darshna Soni talks to them, and the college.
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Message to US: don’t try to bomb Islamic groups
Bombing both the Assad regime and the rebels will neither help the Syrian people nor end the “war on terror” – so says Bilal Abdul Kareem, who has filmed alongside Islamic fighters in Syria.
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Community rebuilds after ‘Islamophobic’ arson attack
The arson attack on the al-Rahma community centre in north London – blamed on the EDL – has left local Somalis and their children deeply affected. Will the area and its people ever recover?
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Islamists urge protests against Egypt’s military coup
An Islamist coalition, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, urges its supporters to take to the streets and protest against a military coup that ousted Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi.
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Four teenagers arrested over Islamic school fire
Four teenagers are arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with a fire at an Islamic boarding school in south east London, Scotland Yard confirms.
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Police probe ‘suspicious’ fire at Islamic school
A fire at an Islamic boarding school which led to hundreds of pupils and staff being evacuated is blamed on “intruders”.
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Islamic community centre destroyed by fire
Counter terrorism police are investigating a fire that completely destroyed an Islamic community centre in the Muswell Hill area of north London.