Resurgent Radical Islam Puts the Indian State Under Strain

Jihad in Bangladesh

Liberal Dhaka is under the threat of radical Islam but the Hasina government is still in denial

Don’t Demonise Islam

Muslims are caught between religious extremism and the moral weakness of those who say ‘Islam is evil’

The Art of Denial

How to complicate the complicated

The Uses of Fear

Brussels, ISIS, and the death of moral leadership in the free world

Calm After the Rage of Evil

‘Europe would need a common enemy to unite and the only one available is Islam.’ Is André Malraux’s prophecy coming true?

Nicolas Hénin: ‘France Should Not Make the Mistake the US Made After 9/11’

Vive Paris: From the Open Archives

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 Comes Close to Home

The news from Bangladesh should alert India to the threat from ISIS. It is real and immediate

THE TERROR FIELDS OF BENGAL

The investigation into a bomb blast in the town of Burdwan in West Bengal last month put the spotlight on a wider network of terror modules stretching beyond the border to Bangladesh. A report from the new dateline of terror