Let’s change our approach to Islamism

How is it possible that ten months after Charlie Hebdo security organs were not able to improve their job so that they could prevent a much better organized, coordinated and certainly for a long time ahead planned attack that has been fatal for more than 130 people? Was it a failure of a security system or is it simply not possible to thwart all terrorist attacks?Read More

Taking Strong Action Against Islamism

In the following days, the Western society will engage in a discussion on how to respond to the series of terrorist attacks which took place on Friday in Paris and were carried out by the Islamic State. The right course of action is not the deployment of ground troops against ISIS, but a consistent political pressure on the Islamic ideology in Europe.Read More

Let us fight Islamism at home first

We have been losing the war against Islamic terror for the past fourteen years because we behave as if it is possible to beat it only by the use of military. Although we managed to bring Al-Qaeda to its knees, more terrorist groups despising the Western lifestyle emerged. Unless we oust Islamism from our cities politically, we can bomb as much as we want but there will always be thousands of jihadists hating what we love – freedom of an individual.Read More

The Challenge of the Islamic State

The European Values Think-Tank is publishing a background paper "The Challenge of the Islamic State", authored by Shmuel Bar, Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, founder and CEO of IntuView Ltd. This background paper was written for the 2015 Prague European Summit. It is available in PDF format HERE.Read More

Tough response to Islamist threat must not end with words

In the following days, Western society will engage in a discussion about the appropriate reaction to the Friday’s Paris attacks that IS claimed responsibility for. Ground invasion against IS is not going to be the right answer, but consistent political fight against Islamist ideology in Europe will.Read More

Set of analyzes from the European Values Think-tank: Islamism, jihadism, refugee crisis, radicalization and ISIS and Europe

In recent days, weeks and months, we have published a series of texts on topics such as Islamism, jihadism, refugee crisis, radicalization and ISIS and Europe. This site serves as a portal where these texts are collected. We monitor these issues systematically since 2012 and we operate our own analytical group Counter-Radicalisation Task Force.

 

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