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Simon Cottee

Simon Cottee is senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent. He is the author of The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam.

Articles by Simon Cottee

A stuffed doll of Pepe the Frog sits at the main entrance of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus in Hong Kong on Nov. 23, 2019.

Canada May Host the World’s First Incel Show Trial

Argument

Simon Cottee

June 1, 2020, 4:15 PM

The World Is Addicted to Pandemic Porn

Argument

Simon Cottee

April 7, 2020, 1:43 PM

When the Line Between Terrorism and Death Wish Disappears

Argument

Simon Cottee

February 5, 2020, 8:53 AM

British Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn lays a bunch of flowers at the end of Westminster Bridge by the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 23, 2017.

Liberal Professors’ Deadly Delusions About Curing Terrorists

Argument

Simon Cottee

December 4, 2019, 5:04 AM

About 20 members and supporters of Confederate heritage groups, including CSA II: The New Confederate States of America and the Virginia Task Force of Three Percenters or the 'Dixie Defenders,' face off with about 100 counter protesters at the Jefferson Davis Monument August 19, 2018 in Richmond, Virginia.

White Supremacy Has Triggered a Terrorism Panic

Argument

Simon Cottee

September 27, 2019, 10:25 AM

The Islamic State’s Shock-and-Bore Terrorism

Argument

Simon Cottee

July 27, 2017, 9:52 AM

TOPSHOT - A member of the Iraqi forces walks past a mural bearing the logo of the Islamic State (IS) group in a tunnel that was reportedly used as a training centre by the jihadists, on March 1, 2017, in the village of Albu Sayf, on the southern outskirts of Mosul. Iraqi forces launched a major push on February 19 to recapture the west of Mosul from the Islamic State jihadist group, retaking the airport and then advancing north. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)