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June 24, 2026

The Goals of Islamism, and How It Came to Threaten Britain and the West

Radicalism’s roots.

Beginning with its origins in early 20th-century Europe, Ed Husain explains the distinctive ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and traces its evolution over the past 100 years. He also argues that the position that Islamism can be neither named nor condemned has entrenched itself in British politics and society, while Islam is taking a very different path in America—and will continue to do so, unless the U.S. repeats the mistakes of Western Europe. (Interview by Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster. Video, 91 minutes. Audio available at the link below.)

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