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Lorenzo Vidino

Lorenzo Vidino is the director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. He is the author of The Closed Circle: Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West and a member of the Advisory Board of the Austrian government’s Observatory on Political Islam.

Articles by Lorenzo Vidino

Taliban fighters pass a billboard in Kabul.

The Myth of Moderate Jihadis

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September 22, 2021, 9:13 AM

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (R), President of the European Council Charles Michel (C) and Austria's Europa minister Karoline Edtstadler (L) pay respects to the victims of a terrorist attack in Vienna, Austria on Nov. 9.

Austria, Not France, Is the Model for Europe’s Crackdown on Islamists

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November 11, 2020, 3:39 AM

French President Emmanuel Macron meets police officers during a visit to Mulhouse, in eastern France, on Feb. 18.

Emmanuel Macron’s War on Islamism Is Europe’s Future

Argument |

February 24, 2020, 5:00 PM

Then-Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to Turkish expatriates at an event to mark the 10th anniversary of the Union of European Turkish Democrats in Cologne, Germany, on May 24, 2014.

Erdogan’s Long Arm in Europe

Argument |

May 7, 2019, 1:31 PM

AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images

Toward a Radical Solution

Argument |

January 5, 2010, 10:12 PM

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