David Oluwale – was he a secular martyr?
417414_1_En_9_Chapter_OnlinePDF (publishers’ proof of my chapter on David Oluwale) I’m Secretary to the David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA) and I spend a lot of my time reminding all those who are interested of the fate of a man who stowed away on a ship leaving Lagos in 1949, and who was killed by two policemen […]
Revolutionary violence and jihadi Islamism
ON REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE: INITIATED BY THE LEFT, OR BY ARMED ISLAMISTS Terrorism in the name of Islam has dominated the news for at least fifteen years now. We’ve had 9/11 [2001], 7/7 [2005] and with the events in Paris we now have 7/1 and 9/1 [2015]. (This article refers to the recent murder by self-styled […]
Islamism and Terror – a Western way of doing politics
This chapter in an edited collection sets out in some detail the history of that tendency within Islam that has adopted an explicitly political strategy in order to introduce the Islamic ummah across the globe. This tendency is usually referred to as ‘Islamism’ to distinguish it from the majority view that Islam is system of belief […]
‘Rioting or Protesting? Losing it or Finding it?’
After the ‘riots’ in England during August 2011 I was asked by Dr Sara Gonzales at the excellent School of Geography at the University of Leeds if I would speak on this topic in the School’s seminar programme. So I put together a slide-show and delivered the talk in October 2011. Afterwards, Dave Ronalds, editor […]