jihad

Vive Paris: From the Open Archives

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Open has been consistent in writing about the ideas that shape the future and divide the present, and no idea concentrates the global mind as much as radical Islamism does today. Here we carry excerpts from the past pages of the magazine, and taken together, the following views by our first-rate contributors tell us that we haven’t travelled much from that horrifying day in January this year in Paris

Jihad: Who Will Contain the Evil?

Tufail Ahmad

A global consensus on fighting jihad cannot wait any longer

Lies, Duplicity and Deceit in the name of Allah

Tufail Ahmad

A special issue on ‘Islam and terrorism’ by Urdu magazine Haftroza Nai Duniya distorts facts, disfigures history and denies misdeeds

BE WORRIED, VERY WORRIED

PR Ramesh

A section of the political class may not accept it but mounting radical resentment within the Indian Muslim community is a reality

JIHAD AFTER PARIS

S Prasannarajan

The lone wolf has internalised the imperium, and when he pulls the trigger, or draws out the knife, or faces his executioner with the greatness of his god on his lips, he becomes a voluntary slave at this century’s most ambitious construction site of religion. The lone wolf has never been alone