Topic

Islamism and Islamist ideology in the UK

4 mentions in 1 episode

Extremist ideology within some Muslim communities seeking to influence schools and public policy, distinguished from Islam and the majority of non-Islamist British Muslims.

Mentions

Humanism in the U.S. and the U.K. (with Andrew Copson)

  • 20:33

    One of the things that I have heard echoing out of the UK is a warning about the rise of Islamists. You know, these communities.

  • 21:14

    The vast majority of British Muslims are not Islamists, of course. We have a problem with Islamist ideology, and it is a serious one in our society.

  • 22:39

    There is recently, for example, a trend of two or three schools to attempt to make hijab or other religious clothing compulsory within schools.

  • 23:35

    I don't see it as any different from Christian nationalism, really. Christian nationalism, Islamist extremism... hard right, hard left.