Last week, British Labour MP Tahir Ali asked Prime Minister Keir Starmer if the government would “commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions.” Starmer did not...
Last week, British Labour MP Tahir Ali asked Prime Minister Keir Starmer if the government would “commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions.” Starmer did not...
CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "Once the allegation of either Islamophobia or blasphemy is out there, the accuser has no control over who hears it and what they see fit to do about it. Those who seek to weaponise these allegations can then use this to their advantage with plausible deniability."
CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy: "Thanks to the newly published Khan review, we now have the clearest picture to date of what actually happened in Batley in March 2021, when a schoolteacher was forced into hiding after showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad."
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to an online roundtable on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 to hear from leading experts on political violence and free speech on the complex question of how democracies should respond to blasphemy terrorism...
CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Last week, the Danish government ignited a firestorm of controversy by unveiling a divisive plan to ban the burning of holy texts, wielding the threat of a two-year prison sentence. But will this approach risk fuelling the flames of extremism? By prohibiting such acts, we may inadvertently provide extremists with the incendiary belief that violence is the only way to be heard."
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.