Why Are Britain's Universities Incubating Islamist Extremism?

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Why Are Britain's Universities Incubating Islamist Extremism? is the title of a seminar held in London in 2006. It was attended by right-wing figures including Anthony Glees, the author of When Students Turn to Terror; the Scottish right-wing intellectual Tom Gallagher; and the right-wing Irish historian Ruth Dudley Edwards. The latter wrote an article on the conference in the Irish Independent. Starting with two anecdoates about how British students came home from university with more conservative religious views, Dudley Edwards continued:

Such undergraduates are typical of those who have been and are being turned into extremists on university campuses in Britain. In some cases, they have become murderers. These days they don't have to go to Pakistan to learn how to kill people: there are several training camps in England. [1]

Notes

  1. Ruth Dudley-Edwards, ‘Fundamentalist Lessons to be learnt by Irish Academe', Sunday Independent (Ireland), 27 August 2006.