https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Tom_Gallagher&feed=atom&action=historyTom Gallagher - Revision history2024-03-28T09:18:56ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.5https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Tom_Gallagher&diff=109766&oldid=prevTom Mills: wording amended slightly2010-03-01T11:14:24Z<p>wording amended slightly</p>
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</table>Tom Millshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Tom_Gallagher&diff=109533&oldid=prevSteven Harkins: /* Islam and 'Culture Talk' */2010-02-25T17:30:17Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Islam and 'Culture Talk'</span></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:Britain's difficulties with integrating Muslim immigrants (and their descendants) from south Asia has been an increasing challenge for governments especially since the country's intervention in a number of Muslim-majority countries provoked ill-feeling, especially among younger British Muslims. From March to August 2008, I was  a Fellow of the [[National Endowment for Democracy]] in Washington DC, exploring why there was less alienation among America's Muslim communities even though  elements of the Bush administration's foreign policy aroused even more controversy among sections of Muslim opinion. My research in this topic is ongoing and emphasises the fact that immigrants find it more  easy to identify with American public values and political institutions than their counterparts in Britain where the over-arching collective identity is based on organic values and institutions which have fallen into disrepute due to the fast pace of change. Integration is likely to be difficult, even if controversial foreign policy issues cease to resonate among Muslims. This is  due to the low prestige of many state institutions in Britain as well as  a culturally divided  and socially fragmented society beset by high crime and where there is no agreement about the design for living in harmony<ref>Tom Gallagher, [http://www.brad.ac.uk/peace/staff/academic/ProfessorTomGallagher/ Tom Gallagher], ''Bradford University'', Accessed 25-February-2010</ref>.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After 1999, Gallagher seems to make very little public comment on either Scottish nationalism, the SNP or on Islam.  He stops writing about Bosnia in the press and it is only in 2006 that he starts to feature again, this time commenting in a negative way about Muslims and Islam.  <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">His first foray in this area (at least the first captured on the Lexis Nexis database of English language news) was in an Irish newspaper report in August 2006 by the well known right winger and Irish historical revisionist [[Ruth Dudley Edwards]].</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After 1999, Gallagher seems to make very little public comment on either Scottish nationalism, the SNP or on Islam.  He stops writing about Bosnia in the press and it is only in 2006 that he starts to feature again, this time commenting in a negative way about Muslims and Islam.   </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">According to Dudley</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Edwards account </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a London </del>seminar<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, (</del>'[[Why Are Britain's Universities Incubating Islamist Extremism?]]'<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">) at which other speakers included </del>[[Anthony Glees]], <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Gallagher </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In August 2006 Gallagher spoke at a seminar held at the neoconservative orientated think</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tank [[Policy Exchange]] in London. The title </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the </ins>seminar <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was </ins>'[[Why Are Britain's Universities Incubating Islamist Extremism?]]'<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. <ref>Tom Gallagher, '[[Media:Wrong Muslim voices on campus.pdf|Wrong Muslim voices on campus]]', ''The First Post'', 21 August 2006. [PDF created 25 February 2010]</ref> It was also attended by </ins>[[Anthony Glees]], the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">author </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''When Students Turn </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Terror'' </ins>and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">right</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wing Irish historian [[Ruth Dudley Edwards]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Easy prey for extremists, said Gallagher, are British students whose talents suit them to be plumbers or carpenters,  but whose parents are starry-eyed about their becoming professionals. With poor grades, they end up on a pointless  course at a mediocre university and realise that they'll end up in some dead-end job. This makes them perfect  recruiting material for those promising to give them a way of making sense of their lives. First, they are offered  brotherhood and, through Islamic teaching, clear instructions on how to live each minute of your life. Then comes the  indoctrination in the victim culture, the propaganda videos showing the suffering of brothers and sisters in Palestine  and Chechnya and Iraq at the hands of Christians and Jews: obviously, no one points out that more Muslims are killed by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">  </del>Muslims than by anyone else. Nor are they told of how the West rescued Kuwait, or saved Muslims in the Balkans. The  videoed sermons preaching the extermination of Jews and infidels come next. <ref>Ruth Dudley-Edwards, ‘[http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/fundamentalist-lessons-to-be-learnt-by-irish-academe-133912.html Fundamentalist Lessons to be learnt by Irish Academe]', ''Sunday Independent'' (Ireland), 27 August 2006.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The news website ''The First Post'' posted an article written by Gallagher on the day of the seminar promoting the event. In that article, and at the seminar itself, Gallagher argued that a main cause of 'radicalisation' amongst young Muslims was not injustice, but the fact that Muslim students are not intellectually capable of achieving in higher education. He wrote:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">[The] Government strategy to increase student numbers while diluting the quality of degrees, especially in the humanities and social sciences ... means many Muslim graduates will fail to establish themselves in the labour market. The word will spread that university is only a prelude to casual or low-paid jobs, which aids extremists grooming a young generation to reject Britain and embrace an international identity championing Islamic revolution. <ref>Tom Gallagher, '[[Media</ins>:<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wrong Muslim voices on campus.pdf|Wrong Muslim voices on campus]]', ''The First Post'', 21 August 2006. [PDF created 25 February 2010]</ref></blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Ruth Dudley Edwards]] wrote an article on the conference in the Irish ''Sunday Independent''. Starting with two anecdoates about how British students came home from university with more conservative religious views, [[Ruth Dudley Edwards|Dudley Edwards]] continued:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">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. ... </ins>Easy prey for extremists, said Gallagher, are British students whose talents suit them to be plumbers or carpenters,  but whose parents are starry-eyed about their becoming professionals. With poor grades, they end up on a pointless  course at a mediocre university and realise that they'll end up in some dead-end job. This makes them perfect  recruiting material for those promising to give them a way of making sense of their lives. First, they are offered  brotherhood and, through Islamic teaching, clear instructions on how to live each minute of your life. Then comes the  indoctrination in the victim culture, the propaganda videos showing the suffering of brothers and sisters in Palestine  and Chechnya and Iraq at the hands of Christians and Jews: obviously, no one points out that more Muslims are killed by Muslims than by anyone else. Nor are they told of how the West rescued Kuwait, or saved Muslims in the Balkans. The  videoed sermons preaching the extermination of Jews and infidels come next. <ref>Ruth Dudley-Edwards, ‘[http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/fundamentalist-lessons-to-be-learnt-by-irish-academe-133912.html Fundamentalist Lessons to be learnt by Irish Academe]', ''Sunday Independent'' (Ireland), 27 August 2006.</ref<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></blockquote</ins>></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Tom Gallagher, who studies ethnic conflict at Bradford University, says that the government's drive to increase the proportion of young people at university to 50% by 2010 has led to poorly educated Muslim students pitching up at universities. Some, confused and struggling, become easy targets for demagogues who enable them to make sense of their lives. <ref>'Chasing shadows; On-campus extremism', ''The Economist'', 21 October 2006.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size</ins>:<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">10pt"></ins>Tom Gallagher, who studies ethnic conflict at Bradford University, says that the government's drive to increase the proportion of young people at university to 50% by 2010 has led to poorly educated Muslim students pitching up at universities. Some, confused and struggling, become easy targets for demagogues who enable them to make sense of their lives. <ref>'Chasing shadows; On-campus extremism', ''The Economist'', 21 October 2006.</ref<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></blockquote</ins>></div></td></tr>
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</table>Tom Millshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Tom_Gallagher&diff=109494&oldid=prevTom Mills: /* Criticism of 'Islamism' */2010-02-25T09:48:51Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Criticism of 'Islamism'</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Easy prey for extremists, said Gallagher, are British students whose talents suit them to be plumbers or carpenters,  but whose parents are starry-eyed about their becoming professionals. With poor grades, they end up on a pointless  course at a mediocre university and realise that they'll end up in some dead-end job. This makes them perfect  recruiting material for those promising to give them a way of making sense of their lives. First, they are offered  brotherhood and, through Islamic teaching, clear instructions on how to live each minute of your life. Then comes the  indoctrination in the victim culture, the propaganda videos showing the suffering of brothers and sisters in Palestine  and Chechnya and Iraq at the hands of Christians and Jews: obviously, no one points out that more Muslims are killed by  Muslims than by anyone else. Nor are they told of how the West rescued Kuwait, or saved Muslims in the Balkans. The  videoed sermons preaching the extermination of Jews and infidels come next. <ref>Ruth Dudley-Edwards, ‘[http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/fundamentalist-lessons-to-be-learnt-by-irish-academe-133912.html Fundamentalist Lessons to be learnt by Irish Academe]', ''Sunday Independent'' (Ireland), 27 August 2006.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Easy prey for extremists, said Gallagher, are British students whose talents suit them to be plumbers or carpenters,  but whose parents are starry-eyed about their becoming professionals. With poor grades, they end up on a pointless  course at a mediocre university and realise that they'll end up in some dead-end job. This makes them perfect  recruiting material for those promising to give them a way of making sense of their lives. First, they are offered  brotherhood and, through Islamic teaching, clear instructions on how to live each minute of your life. Then comes the  indoctrination in the victim culture, the propaganda videos showing the suffering of brothers and sisters in Palestine  and Chechnya and Iraq at the hands of Christians and Jews: obviously, no one points out that more Muslims are killed by  Muslims than by anyone else. Nor are they told of how the West rescued Kuwait, or saved Muslims in the Balkans. The  videoed sermons preaching the extermination of Jews and infidels come next. <ref>Ruth Dudley-Edwards, ‘[http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/fundamentalist-lessons-to-be-learnt-by-irish-academe-133912.html Fundamentalist Lessons to be learnt by Irish Academe]', ''Sunday Independent'' (Ireland), 27 August 2006.</ref></div></td></tr>
</table>Tom Millshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Tom_Gallagher&diff=109485&oldid=prevTom Mills: /* Criticism of 'Islamism' */2010-02-25T09:20:01Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Criticism of 'Islamism'</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Easy prey for extremists, said Gallagher, are British students whose talents suit them to be plumbers or carpenters,  but whose parents are starry-eyed about their becoming professionals. With poor grades, they end up on a pointless  course at a mediocre university and realise that they'll end up in some dead-end job. This makes them perfect  recruiting material for those promising to give them a way of making sense of their lives. First, they are offered  brotherhood and, through Islamic teaching, clear instructions on how to live each minute of your life. Then comes the  indoctrination in the victim culture, the propaganda videos showing the suffering of brothers and sisters in Palestine  and Chechnya and Iraq at the hands of Christians and Jews: obviously, no one points out that more Muslims are killed by  Muslims than by anyone else. Nor are they told of how the West rescued Kuwait, or saved Muslims in the Balkans. The  videoed sermons preaching the extermination of Jews and infidels come next. <ref>Ruth Dudley-Edwards, ‘[http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/fundamentalist-lessons-to-be-learnt-by-irish-academe-133912.html Fundamentalist Lessons to be learnt by Irish Academe]', ''Sunday Independent'' (Ireland), 27 August 2006 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Sunday</del></ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Easy prey for extremists, said Gallagher, are British students whose talents suit them to be plumbers or carpenters,  but whose parents are starry-eyed about their becoming professionals. With poor grades, they end up on a pointless  course at a mediocre university and realise that they'll end up in some dead-end job. This makes them perfect  recruiting material for those promising to give them a way of making sense of their lives. First, they are offered  brotherhood and, through Islamic teaching, clear instructions on how to live each minute of your life. Then comes the  indoctrination in the victim culture, the propaganda videos showing the suffering of brothers and sisters in Palestine  and Chechnya and Iraq at the hands of Christians and Jews: obviously, no one points out that more Muslims are killed by  Muslims than by anyone else. Nor are they told of how the West rescued Kuwait, or saved Muslims in the Balkans. The  videoed sermons preaching the extermination of Jews and infidels come next. <ref>Ruth Dudley-Edwards, ‘[http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/fundamentalist-lessons-to-be-learnt-by-irish-academe-133912.html Fundamentalist Lessons to be learnt by Irish Academe]', ''Sunday Independent'' (Ireland), 27 August 2006<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ins></ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Tom Gallagher, who studies ethnic conflict at Bradford University, says that the government's drive to increase the proportion of young people at university to 50% by 2010 has led to poorly educated Muslim students pitching up at universities. Some, confused and struggling, become easy targets for demagogues who enable them to make sense of their lives.<ref>Chasing shadows; On-campus extremism <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">‘’The Economist’’ </del>October <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">21, </del>2006 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">  U.S</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Edition SECTION: BRITAIN</del></ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Tom Gallagher, who studies ethnic conflict at Bradford University, says that the government's drive to increase the proportion of young people at university to 50% by 2010 has led to poorly educated Muslim students pitching up at universities. Some, confused and struggling, become easy targets for demagogues who enable them to make sense of their lives. <ref><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'</ins>Chasing shadows; On-campus extremism<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">', ''The Economist'', 21 </ins>October 2006.</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>Tom Millshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Tom_Gallagher&diff=109482&oldid=prevTom Mills: /* Criticism of 'Islamism' */2010-02-25T09:17:29Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Criticism of 'Islamism'</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Easy prey for extremists, said Gallagher, are British students whose talents suit them to be plumbers or carpenters,  but whose parents are starry-eyed about their becoming professionals. With poor grades, they end up on a pointless  course at a mediocre university and realise that they'll end up in some dead-end job. This makes them perfect  recruiting material for those promising to give them a way of making sense of their lives. First, they are offered  brotherhood and, through Islamic teaching, clear instructions on how to live each minute of your life. Then comes the  indoctrination in the victim culture, the propaganda videos showing the suffering of brothers and sisters in Palestine  and Chechnya and Iraq at the hands of Christians and Jews: obviously, no one points out that more Muslims are killed by  Muslims than by anyone else. Nor are they told of how the West rescued Kuwait, or saved Muslims in the Balkans. The  videoed sermons preaching the extermination of Jews and infidels come next.<ref> Ruth Dudley-Edwards, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">‘FUNDAMENTALIST LESSONS TO BE LEARNT BY IRISH ACADEME’ The ‘’Sunday Independent’’ </del>(Ireland) August <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">27, </del>2006 Sunday</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Easy prey for extremists, said Gallagher, are British students whose talents suit them to be plumbers or carpenters,  but whose parents are starry-eyed about their becoming professionals. With poor grades, they end up on a pointless  course at a mediocre university and realise that they'll end up in some dead-end job. This makes them perfect  recruiting material for those promising to give them a way of making sense of their lives. First, they are offered  brotherhood and, through Islamic teaching, clear instructions on how to live each minute of your life. Then comes the  indoctrination in the victim culture, the propaganda videos showing the suffering of brothers and sisters in Palestine  and Chechnya and Iraq at the hands of Christians and Jews: obviously, no one points out that more Muslims are killed by  Muslims than by anyone else. Nor are they told of how the West rescued Kuwait, or saved Muslims in the Balkans. The  videoed sermons preaching the extermination of Jews and infidels come next. <ref>Ruth Dudley-Edwards, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">‘[http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/fundamentalist-lessons-to-be-learnt-by-irish-academe-133912.html Fundamentalist Lessons to be learnt by Irish Academe]', ''Sunday Independent'' </ins>(Ireland)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, 27 </ins>August 2006 Sunday</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>Tom Millshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Tom_Gallagher&diff=109355&oldid=prevDavid: /* Critic of the SNP and Scottish nationalism */2010-02-24T09:00:52Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Critic of the SNP and Scottish nationalism</span></span></p>
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</table>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Tom_Gallagher&diff=109354&oldid=prevDavid: /* Criticism of 'Islamism' */2010-02-24T07:50:46Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Criticism of 'Islamism'</span></span></p>
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