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Terrorist Bombing Strikes Brussels Airport: What We Know : The Two-Way : NPR

BILL CHAPPELL9 years ago09 mins

Hide captionPassengers are evacuated from Zaventem Bruxelles International Airport after a terrorist bombing earlier today in Brussels, Belgium. END CLASS=”IMAGECAPTION” END CLASS=”HSLIDE” END CLASS=”AUX” END CLASS=”HSLIDEWRAP” Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images END CLASS=”PHOTOCREDIT” Hide captionIn this image provided by Daniela Schwarzer, smoke is seen at the Brussels Airport after explosions were heard Tuesday. At least 15 people…

NYT: If you see weird text on a computer screen, might be terrorist encryption software / Boing Boing

MARK FRAUENFELDER 9 years ago06 mins

From a March 19, 2016 New York Times article: One of the terrorists pulled out a laptop, propping it open against the wall, said the 40-year-old woman. When the laptop powered on, she saw a line of gibberish across the screen: “It was bizarre — he was looking at a bunch of lines, like lines…

Tiny British Boy Flagged as Potential Terrorist for Drawing a Cucumber

Sam Biddle9 years ago02 mins

Photo: Getty Islamophobia and terror-angst have gotten so bad in Europe that the classroom doodles of a 4-year-old are now potential red flags for jihadi radicalization. The BBC reports that a very young student in Luton, England was referred to local police after his teachers saw the above drawing of a stick figure cutting up…

Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia’s Collapse – The Atlantic

Sarah Chayes and Alex de Waal9 years ago012 mins

START “MORE FROM” Custom END “MORE FROM” Custom For half a century, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been the linchpin of U.S. Mideast policy. A guaranteed supply of oil has bought a guaranteed supply of security. Ignoring autocratic practices and the export of Wahhabi extremism, Washington stubbornly dubs its ally “moderate.” So tight is…

KKK groups in America doubled last year, report says | Fusion

Daniel Rivero9 years ago8 years ago09 mins

After years of apparently dwindling away into the annals of history, the Ku Klux Klan saw something of a resurgence in activity last year, according to a report published by a hate group watchdog. The number of Klan-affiliated groups in America grew to 190 last year, up from 72 in 2014, according to the Southern…

Welcome To America — Now Spy On Your Friends

Talal Ansari, Siraj Datoo9 years ago041 mins

When Muslim immigrants apply to become citizens, they often find the process delayed for years without explanation. Then, when they are at wit’s end, they get a visit from the FBI, with an offer they don’t dare refuse. When he got the last call to come meet with the FBI agents, A.M. allowed himself an…

The Far-Right Revival: A Thirty-Year War? – The New Yorker

Evan Osnos9 years ago014 mins

Confederate-flag sympathizers rallying at Stone Mountain Park, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, in August, 2015. Credit Photograph by John Amis / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the winter of 1999, the Kansas City Star asked several local dignitaries and writers to herald the upcoming century by writing predictions, replicating an exercise that the…

Deeyah Khan interview: The award-winning filmmaker on chronicling British jihadism | Features | Culture | The Independent

Karen Attwood9 years ago012 mins

Anyone wishing to understand why thousands of Western-born Muslims are leaving comfortable homes to fight with Isis would do well to watch Deeyah Khan’s powerful new film Jihad: A British Story. The award-winning filmmaker spent 18 months interviewing some of the founding fathers of jihad in the UK out of a “personal obsessive curiosity” to…

2015 was deadliest year for domestic extremist violence in two decades, report says – The Washington Post

Mark Berman9 years ago9 years ago012 mins

The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., site of one of the deadliest mass killings last year. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The mass killings that erupted last year seemed linked by little more than a hail of gunfire. Their locations became etched in public memory, the terror and bloodshed drawing our attention to a church…

Why aren’t we calling the Oregon occupiers ‘terrorists?’ – The Washington Post

Janell Ross9 years ago9 years ago09 mins

Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Headquarters was occupied Saturday, Jan. 2, by a group of activists protesting the federal prosecution of two ranchers, slated to report to prison Monday on arson charges. (Reuters) As of Sunday afternoon, The Washington Post called them “occupiers.” The New York Times opted for “armed activists” and “militia men.” And the Associated…

Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee – The Atlantic

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Terrorism

Terrorist Bombing Strikes Brussels Airport: What We Know : The Two-Way : NPR

NYT: If you see weird text on a computer screen, might be terrorist encryption software / Boing Boing

Tiny British Boy Flagged as Potential Terrorist for Drawing a Cucumber

Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia’s Collapse – The Atlantic

KKK groups in America doubled last year, report says | Fusion

Welcome To America — Now Spy On Your Friends

The Far-Right Revival: A Thirty-Year War? – The New Yorker

Deeyah Khan interview: The award-winning filmmaker on chronicling British jihadism | Features | Culture | The Independent

2015 was deadliest year for domestic extremist violence in two decades, report says – The Washington Post

Why aren’t we calling the Oregon occupiers ‘terrorists?’ – The Washington Post