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

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

ON IMMIGRATION 3. THE NEED TO FULLY GLOBALISE WAR

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Afghanistan, Afrin, Algeria, arms race, Cambodia, conflict, developing, displacement, DRC, economic migrants, economics, featured, globalisation, immigration, Labour, Laos, Libya, migrants, millennial generation, on immigration, resources, somalia, systemic cause, turkey, uk, Vietnam, war, weapons, West, Yemen.

by Stu Lucy

Reasons for migration come in many forms.The now globalised and fully interconnected 21st century world allows people the capacity to travel great distances in search of work or a better standard of living for themselves. Increasingly though, more and more individuals, mainly from the developing world, are forced into the migrant sphere through no fault of their own. I have already touched on two types of migrant; those coerced by economic situations to move to foreign countries, as well as those unable to sustain themselves in their native environments as a consequence of various forms of climate effects. There is of course another migrant population that find themselves forced to leave everything they held dear behind as a result of more pervasive and damaging spectre: conflict.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

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

A FRIGHTENED AND DANGEROUS NEW WORLD AWAITS? – LOOKING BACK ON OBAMA’S 2ND TERM

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged America, boko harem, cold war, daesh, defence, diplomacy, Donald Trump, Exceptionalism, foreign policy, George Bush, globalisation, hegemony, history, isolationist, Kupchan, legitimacy, make america great again, middle east, Nato, nuclear, obama, Osama bin Laden, protectionist, rhetoric, Russia, Syria, TTIP, unipolar, Yemen.

by Oliver Steward

Two things that have become clear with the election of Donald J Trump as President – elect. Firstly, America’s status as a sole superpower and its Exceptionalism is coming to an end, and secondly, the liberal international order, rooted in principles of international law and community and defined in part by American hegemony, has been turned upside down. The world is in an increasing state of flux.

While it is undergoing a process of reordering, the likelihood is that global affairs may not be very responsive to the will of the United States either through its diplomatic capacity, its institutional structures which it retains its legitimacy, or through hard power. Authors such as Kupchan go further, arguing that America must prepare for the decline of the West, correlating with a decline in its own position.Continue Reading

THE LIBERTY WING: WHAT’S THE USAF DOING OVER NORWICH?

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged air force, airstrikes, army, British army, CND, cold war, drones, ethics, Europe, F-15E, France, Goldsboro, Lakenheath, Liberty Wing, military, military presence, Nato, norwich, nuclear bombs, nuclear weapons, Nukemap, Pakistan, Palomares, RAF, Russia, Strike Eagle, Syria, uk, United States Air Force, US, USA, USAF, war, war crimes, Women of Greenham Common, Yemen.

by Zoe Harding

In my last piece, while blithering about the US Presidential Race, I mentioned that one of the reasons for my interest in the politics of another country was the continued presence of their nuclear-capable aircraft in the skies over my head. This week I think I should clarify that, and take a look at what the world’s largest and most ludicrously overfunded military is up to in our neck of the woods.Continue Reading

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

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

ON IMMIGRATION 3. THE NEED TO FULLY GLOBALISE WAR

THE UNSPOKEN OCCUPATION

A WORLD IN CRISIS

A FRIGHTENED AND DANGEROUS NEW WORLD AWAITS? – LOOKING BACK ON OBAMA’S 2ND TERM

THE LIBERTY WING: WHAT’S THE USAF DOING OVER NORWICH?

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