ISIS BRIDE SHAMIMA BEGUM IS BRITISH WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Bangladesh, Boris Johnson, brainwashing, Brexit, british media, citizenship, counterterrorism, daesh, eurocentric, Eurocentrism, featured, grooming, institutional racism, iraq, Iraq War, ISIS, Islam, Islamaphobia, Muslim, prevent, radicalization, sajid david, Saudi Arabia, scaremongering, Shamima Begum, Syria, tabloid, terrorism, theresa may, xenophobia, Yemen.

By Jonathan Lee

Another day, another outrage. This time it’s about one-time ‘ISIS bride’ Shamima Begum, a 20-year-old girl from Bethnal Green who has finally had her right to return home recognised, after leaving the UK in 2014 to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.

Begum had her citizenship stripped from her in February 2019 by the Home Office. This was declared legal on account of her being a Bangladeshi dual national, meaning she would not be made stateless. However, when she was asked by the BBC, she said she did not have a Bangladeshi passport and had never been to the country. Regardless of the decision against her, her son was a British citizen and should have been allowed to return. Perhaps if he had been allowed to he might have survived. As it was he died of pneumonia in a refugee camp in Northern Syria, a month after his mother had her citizenship revoked. You have to wonder if this all would have happened had she been white?Continue Reading

ROJAVA, REFUGEES & EU RESPONSIBILITY

Posted on November 9, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged arms trade, assad, complicity, conflict, daesh, democracy, ecology, ecosocialism, Erdogan, EU, featured, feminism, genocide, ISIS, Kurds, liberation, media, migration, MSM, PKK, radical, refugee, refugees, revolution, Rojava, Syria, turkey, USA Military, war crimes, YPG, YPJ.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

Since Turkey’s aggressive offensive against Rojava, an area of North Eastern Syria, began early in October 2019, at least 160,000 Syrians have fled their homes. A BBC report from the 17th October states that airstrikes and ground attacks have killed civilians on both sides of the Turkey / Syria border and quotes a UNICEF estimate that 70,000 children have already been displaced. This is a tragedy for the Kurdish citizens of Rojava, as well as the broader Middle East, given what the Rojava political project represented. Continue Reading

COLONIALISM, CORRUPTION & CHAOS: THE DISILLUSIONMENT OF IRAQI YOUTH

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, anti-war, ba'ath, Baghdad, bias, british politics, civilian death, CPA, daesh, displaced, featured, illegal war, iraq, iraq inquiry, Iraq occupation, Iraq War, ISIS, islamophobia, legal action, media, middle east, Mohammed Halbusi, Muslim, Paul Bremer, refugee, Saddam, saddam hussein, shia, soliders, tony blair, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, Zahra Ali.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

During early October 2019, in the space of just nine days, Iraqi state forces killed over one hundred young people and injured thousands more. Thousands. In just nine days. As anti-corruption protests broke out, the state deployed live ammunition almost immediately. In some places, snipers positioned themselves on rooftops, picking off young Iraqi citizens who had nothing left to lose except the hope that they would one day experience a government that provides for their basic needs rather than greedily shovelling oil revenue into its own pockets.

The catalyst for these protests was the sacking of Lieutenant General Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, who led the fight against ISIS as part of Iraq’s elite counter terrorism unit, and who was widely acknowledged as the liberator of Mosul. As soon as his transfer to an administrative role was made public, speculation arose that ‘his refusal to back a specific political party made him unpopular among officials in Baghdad’, and that he was ‘removed from his post because he broke sectarian barriers in Mosul.’ The sacking of al-Saadi was widely perceived as emblematic of the corruption that has characterized successive post-U.S invasion administrations, resulting in widespread protests against corruption, unemployment and poor public services. Continue Reading

THE ENEMY OF YOUR ENEMY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND: PSEUDO-LEFTISTS, ASSAD & RUSSIA

Posted on May 2, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged airstrikes, anti america, assad, Assad regime, bombing, chemical warfare, chemical weapons, daesh, david cameron, Eastern Ghouta, featured, food, France, global media, Hama, Hillary Benn, house of commons, human rights, humanitarian grounds, international intervention, international media, leftism, propaganfa, putin, right to protect, RT, Russia, SHRC, society, surgical strikes, Syria, Syrian Kurds, turkey, United Kingdom, USA, YPG.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

CW: mentions of torture, violence, assault

For a few years now so-called leftists have been acting as cheerleaders for Syria’s President Assad. The apparent logic seems to go something like this: “American imperialism is abhorrent, so naturally we will embrace America’s enemy – Russia – and by extension, Assad as our friends.” Let me be clear: in this case, the enemy of your enemy is not your friend. It is perfectly feasible to recognise that Russia is an imperialist power and serial abuser of human rights without legitimizing America’s terrible track record of imperialism, occupation and human rights abuses.Continue Reading

SHAMIMA BEGUM IS A REFLECTION OF SOCIETAL FAILURE: WE MUST BRING HER HOME AND LEARN

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged brainwashing, british media, citizenship, counterterrorism, daesh, eurocentric, Eurocentrism, featured, grooming, institutional racism, iraq, Iraq War, ISIS, Islam, Islamaphobia, Muslim, prevent, radicalization, sajid david, Saudi Arabia, scaremongering, Shamima Begum, Syria, terrorism, xenophobia, Yemen.

By Sarah Edgcumbe

The British press has been in a frenzy recently over nineteen-year-old Shamima Begum and her desire to return to the UK from the refugee camp in Syria where she currently resides. There are probably very few people in the UK who are unaware that Shamima travelled from the UK to ISIS territory in Syria at the age of fifteen, where she married an ISIS militant, conceived and lost two children before giving birth to a third (who also passed away) in the refugee camp in Syria she currently calls home.Continue Reading

RUSSIA AND THE SYRIAN PROBLEM

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Andrei Karlov, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, ceasfire, Crimea, daesh, drones, featured, Hezbollah, humanitarian corridor, Iran, israel, Jaysh al-Islam, Nato, propaganda, putin, Russia, state media, Syria, terrorism, Trump, turkey, Ukraine, UN, united nations, withdrawal of US support.

by Gunnar Eigener

Content warning: mentions drone attacks, conflict, and terrorism.

While the US President, Donald Trump, has made it clear that the US presence in Syria was to carry out the extermination of Daesh, Russia’s intentions have always been to support their ally, Bashar al-Assad. Last September the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, made a surprise visit to Syria to announce that Russia had succeeded in its mission. While both might be correct, it is Putin who is in a more difficult position and the risk that Russia will be dragged further in has become ever more likely.

Syria was an opportunity for Putin’s Russia to flex its muscles on the international stage again after creating trouble in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. Having already interfered in the election in the US and potentially in other elections in Europe, Russia remains largely unchallenged. Sanctions brought about by the US Congress do little to curb the ambitious plans of a nation seeking to relive past glories. Russia continues to forge relations with former satellite states and the lack of US involvement in NATO does nothing to deter the risk of another cold war breaking out in Eastern Europe. Yet, as with so many Western states, Russia has found itself stuck in the political and religious quagmire that is the Middle East.Continue Reading

THE UNSPOKEN OCCUPATION

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Africa, AFRICOM, al-Murabitun, al-Shabaab, Ansar al-Sharia, army, Boeing, boko haram, Burkina Faso, coltan, corporate, daesh, Djibouti, Drummond, Ethiopia, featured, Halliburton, Islamic Magreb, Kenya, military, neoliberalism, Niger, occupation, Raytheon, somalia, South Sudan, terrorism, the Lord’s Resistance Army, the Seychelles, US, war on terror, WEIRD, Yemen.

by Stu Lucy

With all the madness that has been taking place across the pond on a near daily basis since the 2016 inauguration of the comb-over-in-chief, it is all too easy to overlook many of the less sensational affairs carried out by the United States. While we are familiar with the war on terror, defined by US military occupation of significant areas of the Middle East for almost all of the 21st Century, there are areas of the world in which the US remain equally as active in this same regard, despite much less public awareness.

In October of last year, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara attacked a small group of Nigerien and US soldiers in the Tonga Tonga region of Niger, killing three Americans and five Nigeriens. Although the incident was indeed broadcast by the mainstream media, the event represents a far greater issue developed on the continent: the increasing military presence of the US in Africa.Continue Reading

AS ISLAMIC STATE RECEDES, THE WAR ON TERROR CONTINUES TO GROW.

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged caliphate, Counter Terrorism, daesh, execution, human rights, ideology, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, radicalisation, Rory Stewart, Syria.

By Richard McNeil-Willson

As Islamic State strongholds tumble, the language of counter-terrorism in Europe and beyond expands exponentially.

Binaries lie at the heart of understanding terrorism and modern state security: ‘you’re either with us or against us’; a citizen of here or ‘a citizen of nowhere’; a supporter of the democratic, liberal state or ‘an enemy of freedom’. By targeting ‘us’ – both the individual and the state concurrently – terrorists force citizens into a position in which we all need to look beyond legal convention, to dispense with some rights to preserve others. So has trod the orthodox argument, refracted outwards from media, government and research. Continue Reading

A WORLD IN CRISIS

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, barack obama, Brexit, Charlottesville, cholera, climate change, crisis, DACA, daesh, Donald Trump, famine, Houthi, Hurrican IRma, Hurricane Harvey, hydrogen bomb, ISIS, Myanmar, Nazi imagery, North Korea, nuclear, politicians, politics, Qatar, Rohingya, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Syria, threat, UN, war, white supremacy, world, Yemen.

by Gunnar Eigener

Everywhere we turn to some sort of crisis or damage control is taking place. North Korea’s recent testing of a hydrogen bomb, the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Hurricane Harvey devastating parts of Texas, the cholera epidemic and famine in Yemen, the failure of Brexit negotiations, US President Trump’s ever divisive actions, the list goes on. Our global problems are racking up and cracks are starting to appear.

Many of these problems have been long coming, but are now gathering lethal momentum. The world seems to be constantly on edge, waiting with baited breath for the next catastrophe or attack, humanitarian or economical, to happen. New problems are being created or the foundations of future conflicts being laid. What is probably most frustrating is that many are avoidable.Continue Reading

T IS FOR TERRORISM. T IS FOR TORY.

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged arms deal, complicit, daesh, Democratic Unionist, Democratic Unionist Party, disillusion, DUP, Foreign Office, government, Hamas, intelligence services, IRA, Iran, ISIS, jeremy corbyn, london, lone wolf, manchester, middle east, Northern Ireland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, tech companies, terrorism, The Troubles, theresa may, Troubles, Ulster, Ulster Resistance, US.

by Gunnar Eigener

Content warning: mentions terrorism, The Troubles.

Not only has Theresa May’s snap election gamble backfired spectacularly, but the possibility of a partnership with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has left a sinister stain on the government going forward. Lurid headlines have been a constant feature of the campaign, attacking Jeremy Corbyn and his alleged links to the IRA and Hamas. But now, ironically, it is the current government that has turned to terrorist sympathisers in order to shore up their position. Time will tell if those tabloids will apply the same standard to the government as they did to Jeremy Corbyn.

Within these developments, there are two worrying aspects that have emerged – both nationally and globally. The first is the ease with which governments are able to use the fear of terrorism to further their own agenda. The second is the ability of governments to ignore or cover up their complicit actions.Continue Reading

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ISIS BRIDE SHAMIMA BEGUM IS BRITISH WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

ROJAVA, REFUGEES & EU RESPONSIBILITY

COLONIALISM, CORRUPTION & CHAOS: THE DISILLUSIONMENT OF IRAQI YOUTH

THE ENEMY OF YOUR ENEMY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND: PSEUDO-LEFTISTS, ASSAD & RUSSIA

SHAMIMA BEGUM IS A REFLECTION OF SOCIETAL FAILURE: WE MUST BRING HER HOME AND LEARN

RUSSIA AND THE SYRIAN PROBLEM

THE UNSPOKEN OCCUPATION

AS ISLAMIC STATE RECEDES, THE WAR ON TERROR CONTINUES TO GROW.

A WORLD IN CRISIS

T IS FOR TERRORISM. T IS FOR TORY.

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