In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks with Lorenzo Vidino, Director of the Programme on Extremism at The George Washington University.
What happens when an ideological movement is neither a terrorist organisation nor an ordinary religious group — but something in between? One of the world’s leading experts on the Muslim Brotherhood explains…
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The early history of Islam in America
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The first Brotherhood-linked students arriving in the U.S. in the 50s and 60s
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The formation of the first American Brotherhood cells
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The Brotherhood’s gradual institutional influence across the 80s and 90s
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Why CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) is so controversial
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Germany’s three-fold classification system and what the U.S. can learn from it
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