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Five global challenges: how might Hizmet respond?

By Max Farrar on August 12, 2016

Hizmet, the social movement inspired by the neo-Sufi thinker Fetullah Gülen, is currently being dismembered by the autocratic president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He accuses Gülen of ordering a coup attempt on 15th July 2016, saying it was was led by Hizmet members in the army. This is strenuously denied by Gülen and Hizmet, […]

Posted in blog, engagement, public sociology, Public talks | Tagged climate change, Fetullah Gülen, Hizmet, migration, social movements, social solidarity, violence, wealth income inequality | Leave a response

UeL Academic on Jihadi Hit List

By Max Farrar on October 4, 2015

This is so important that I’m uploading a PDF of the article in the Independent on Sunday last week explaining the abominable actions of the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT). The ABT have already murdered several people simply for their rationalist, secularist views.  These violent Islamists have now issued a list of people they intend to kill, including […]

Posted in blog | Tagged Islamism, jihadis, terrorism, violence | Leave a response

Revolutionary violence and jihadi Islamism

By Max Farrar on January 15, 2015

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 […]

Posted in blog, culture and politics, writing | Tagged Islamism, jihadis, Red Brigades, revolution, violence | Leave a response

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