Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Victoria University, Australia. He recently completed his PhD on the relationship between factors of existential anxiety and support for extremism and violent extremism in Indonesia. He has a special interest in political, social, and mental health issues with a particular focus on Indonesia.
In this Research Paper, Samantha Kutner explores the scripts and narratives that attract the members of crypto-fascist extremist organisations with an in-depth analysis of the Proud Boys.
On April 15, 2020, German police arrested four suspected members of an Islamic State (ISIS) cell. All four men were Tajik nationals but appear to have been residents of North Rhine-Westphalia at the time of their arrest. They are suspected of joining ISIS in January 2019 and subsequently receiving orders from high-ranking ISIS members in […]
On the evening of February 19th, a shooter opened fire at a shisha bar and a kiosk in Hanau, Germany killing nine people and injuring more. After the attack, the suspect apparently returned to his home, killed his mother, and committed suicide. He shared a manifesto detailing the racist and supremacist background of the attack. While […]