Douglas Murray - Could Geert Wilders Change Europe?

Douglas Murray: Believing Impossible Things

Excerpted from a one day conference at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Douglas Murray sat on a panel entitled Multi-culturalism and the record of assimilation.

Blasphemy & Bravery - Danish Cartoon Crisis in Retrospect - Douglas Murray

Sam Harris & Douglas Murray Explain the Refugee Crisis

Society Is Fragile Ecosystem: Free Speech, Immigration, Islam - Douglas Murray in Stockholm 2016

Excerpted from Douglas Murray's talk at the "Dangerous Words 250" Free Speech conference, October 1, 2016

Douglas Murray - Islam, Putin & Persecuted Christians

Douglas Murray - Is Merkel Culpable for Terrorist Attacks?

Douglas Murray on consequences of Merkel's migrant policy with Sky, after Berlin attack.

Douglas Murray - Berlin Terror Manhunt

Douglas Murray on Good Morning Britain discussing the terror manhunt in Berlin.

Douglas Murray - Nigel Farage and Donald Trump

Douglas Murray on Sky News discussing Nigel Farage's visit to see President-elect Donald Trump and Britain's response to this.

Oxford Debate: Immigration Is Bad For Britain | Douglas Murray Settles the Matter

Douglas Murray & Maajid Nawaz on Atheism within Islam

Burkinis: What Does the Row Tell Us about France? - BBC Newsnight

Evan Davis discusses France's controversial 'burkini ban' with Shelina Janmohamed, author of Love in a Headscarf, and Generation M, and Douglas Murray, associate editor of the Spectator.

The Milo Yiannopoulos Show: Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray and Dave Rubin Talk Free Speech, ISIS, Israel (Full Interview)

The Cartoon Wars

GATESTONE INSTITUTE: It is most important to keep on challenging these would-be censors, so that people with Kalashnikov rifles do not make our customs and laws. / One of the false presumptions of our time is that people on the political left are motivated by good intentions even when they do bad things, while people on the political right are motivated by bad intentions even when they do good things. / When people prefer to focus on the motives of the victims rather than on the motives of the attackers, they will ignore the single most important matter: that an art exhibition, or free speech, has been targeted. / It does not matter if you are right-wing or left-wing, or American, Danish, Dutch, Belgian or French. These particularities may matter greatly and be endlessly interesting to people in the countries in question. But they matter not a jot to ISIS or their fellow-travellers. What these people are trying to do is to enforce Islamic blasphemy laws across the entire world. That is all that matters.

ISIS appears to have inspired its first terrorist attack in the United States: in Garland, Texas. This item may have slipped the attention of many people because as is so often the case today, much of the reporting and commentary has got caught up on other, supplementary issues.

The supplementary issues are first, that the attack targeted a competition set up to show images of what people thought Muhammad may have looked like. Then, there is the identity of the people who organized the exhibition and spoke at it.

Before coming to this, let us just return to that main issue. Since January, the idea that ISIS-like groups can inspire people to carry out murderous attacks in Paris and Copenhagen has come to be accepted. But that this can happen in Texas, of all places, could yet have an even worse "chilling effect" on free speech than the attacks in Paris and Copenhagen. No European country has the constitutional commitment to free speech of the United States. And Texas is not stuck in the moral relativism and fearful multiculturalism of most European countries.

There will be a feeling, post-Garland, that if ISIS can strike in Texas, it can strike anyplace. The entire developed world is therefore a potential site for an attack from ISIS. Although no one will put his hands up and surrender, neither will anyone be likely to draw attention to himself by saying or doing anything that might displease such homicidal censors. » | Douglas Murray | Thursday, May 07, 2015

'Religion of Peace' Is Not a Harmless Platitude

THE SPECTATOR: To face Islamist terror, we must face the facts about Islam's history

The West’s movement towards the truth is remarkably slow. We drag ourselves towards it painfully, inch by inch, after each bloody Islamist assault.

In France, Britain, Germany, America and nearly every other country in the world it remains government policy to say that any and all attacks carried out in the name of Mohammed have ‘nothing to do with Islam’. It was said by George W. Bush after 9/11, Tony Blair after 7/7 and Tony Abbott after the Sydney attack last month. It is what David Cameron said after two British extremists cut off the head of Drummer Lee Rigby in London, when ‘Jihadi John’ cut off the head of aid worker Alan Henning in the ‘Islamic State’ and when Islamic extremists attacked a Kenyan mall, separated the Muslims from the Christians and shot the latter in the head. And, of course, it is what President François Hollande said after the massacre of journalists and Jews in Paris last week.

All these leaders are wrong. In private, they and their senior advisers often concede that they are telling a lie. The most sympathetic explanation is that they are telling a ‘noble lie’, provoked by a fear that we — the general public — are a lynch mob in waiting. ‘Noble’ or not, this lie is a mistake. First, because the general public do not rely on politicians for their information and can perfectly well read articles and books about Islam for themselves. Secondly, because the lie helps no one understand the threat we face. Thirdly, because it takes any heat off Muslims to deal with the bad traditions in their own religion. And fourthly, because unless mainstream politicians address these matters then one day perhaps the public will overtake their politicians to a truly alarming extent. » | Douglas Murray | Saturday, January 17, 2015

Radical Islamic Cleric Declares British Law Is Invalid...in Britain

RADICAL cleric Anjem Choudary sparked fury today by declaring he 'doesn't accept' that British law is valid in the UK.


Read the Express article here | Jason Taylor | Thursday, October 23, 2014

Baroness Warsi Was Over-promoted, Incapable and Incompetent

THE SPECTATOR: Farewell then Sayeeda, Baroness Warsi. The most over-promoted, incapable and incompetent minister of recent times has finally done the nation one service and resigned. This morning she announced on Twitter that she can ‘no longer support government policy on Gaza.’ That would be government policy that now includes reviewing all arms export licenses to Israel? Not strong enough for Sayeeda, it would seem.

It was not hard to see this coming. Not just because Warsi’s Twitter activity in recent weeks has mainly consisted of pumping out support for Hamas-run Gaza and berating supporters of Israel for saying things she disagrees with, but also because she has shown a career-long sympathy for Hamas and other Islamic radicals. » | Douglas Murray | Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Douglas Murray – Islam Has Failed Europe

Douglas Murray – Asserting the Superiority of Western Values

Douglas Murray arguing in 2007 that 'We should not be reluctant to assert the superiority of Western values'.