Belgium’s dwindling churches to be converted into mosques: Churches in Belgium are to be turned into mosques as Christian congregations decline while Muslims demand more places to worship. [Telegraph]
The fallacy of Islamic ‘national suicide’: A new buzzword is arising from the network of Israeli think tanks and security-oriented academic departments bent on instigating a U.S. attack on Iran: “national suicide.” The term describes a supposed Arab Muslim tradition of politically motivated suicide at the national, not just individual, level. [LA Times]
Why ‘deradicalisation’ is not the answer: This strategy will fail for the simple reason that the government has yet to fully appreciate what the influences are that they seek to alter. In addition, officials have no idea as to what it is they would wish to alter them to. [Spiked]
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