In the 1950s, some religious leaders were behind a campaign to ban shorts in public. Today that would be seen as an extreme move. What is it about religious extremism that in the worst case scenario turns violent? A regular weekly look-back at some offbeat or interesting stories that have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen […]
Tag: History
My chat with Michael Petrou on Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War – were they ‘foreign fighters’ and did they pose a security threat back home?
“Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it”. We are forgetting our history and thus making terrorism worse.
Tunisia is often seen as a role model for the Arab world: the reality is very different indeed.
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Al-Karak Attack – December 18, 2016
In 2016 on this day, Islamist extremists attacked the Jordanian city of Karak killing ten people, including a Canadian tourist.
On December 14, 1973, the ‘Charles Martel Group’ carried out a bomb attack against the Algerian Consulate in Marseilles, killing four and wounding 23.
Defining what is and what is not terrorism is not easy and we should stop pretending that it is.