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Sexual abuse in conservative Christian communities: This is religious terrorism too

If we want to be consistent with how we see and deal with terrorism, we need to look at the violence tolerated within fringe Christian sects.

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Right wing or jihadis: which poses the greater threat to Canada?

We really need to stop debating whether the far right or Islamist extremists are more dangerous: both need to be monitored.

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Canadian involved in a plot to overthrow the US government?

There are all kinds of hate groups out there that advocate violence: how much of a threat do they really pose?

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Podcast Quick Hits

QUICK HITS #12 – Forgetting our history makes terrorism worse

“Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it”. We are forgetting our history and thus making terrorism worse.

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Car bombing of Shia pilgrims in Iraq – January 3, 2013

Despite our Western-centric views on terrorism, it is an unavoidable fact that the vast majority of casualties from Muslim terrorists are other Muslims.

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Why New Year’s Eve is a prime terrorist target

On previous New Year’s Eve, terrorist attacks have indeed been carried out. Here is a sample.

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Is there really any point to terrorist listings?

We need to combat terrorism on a number of fronts but it is not clear how necessary terrorist entity listings are.

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Human rights groups discuss the 2019 Global Terrorism Index

The seventh annual Global Terrorism Index covers key global trends and patterns in terrorism.

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Communist attack in the Philippines – December 19, 2018

On this day in 2018 the New People’s Army abducted two soldiers and a dozen militiamen in an attack on an army base in the south of the Philippines.

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Attack in Grozny, Russia – December 17, 2016

Counter terrorism takes all kinds of forms. Sometimes the only recourse is to use lethal force.