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.
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

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Simon Cottee
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A man reads a coronavirus news alert

The World Is Addicted to Pandemic Porn

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Simon Cottee
Police officers in London
Police officers in London

When the Line Between Terrorism and Death Wish Disappears

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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.
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

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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.
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

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The Islamic State’s Shock-and-Bore Terrorism

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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)
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)

Terrorists Are Not Snowflakes

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Osama bin Laden’s Secret Masturbation Fatwa

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Flemming Rose, the foreign affairs editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten and author of 'Tyranny of Silence' drinks a glass of water during the book launch of Freedom of Speech under Attack at in The Hague, on April 23, 2015. Flemming Rose was principally responsible for the September 2005 publication of the cartoons that initiated the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in early 2006. AFP PHOTO / ANP / MARTIJN BEEKMAN =NETHERLANDS OUT= (Photo credit should read Martijn Beekman/AFP/Getty Images)
Flemming Rose, the foreign affairs editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten and author of 'Tyranny of Silence' drinks a glass of water during the book launch of Freedom of Speech under Attack at in The Hague, on April 23, 2015. Flemming Rose was principally responsible for the September 2005 publication of the cartoons that initiated the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in early 2006. AFP PHOTO / ANP / MARTIJN BEEKMAN =NETHERLANDS OUT= (Photo credit should read Martijn Beekman/AFP/Getty Images)

Did the Terrorists Win in Denmark?

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 12: Islam4UK Spokesman Anjem Choudary (C) leaves a press conference in Millbank Studios on January 12, 2010 in London, England. The radical Islamic group had planned to stage a march through Wootton Bassett to honour Muslims who have been killed in the conflict in Afghanistan, but have been prevented from doing so, under counter-terrorism laws. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 12: Islam4UK Spokesman Anjem Choudary (C) leaves a press conference in Millbank Studios on January 12, 2010 in London, England. The radical Islamic group had planned to stage a march through Wootton Bassett to honour Muslims who have been killed in the conflict in Afghanistan, but have been prevented from doing so, under counter-terrorism laws. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Anjem Choudary and the Criminalization of Dissent

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People make their way in the vicinity of a police intervention to arrest people in connection with the deadly attacks inParis, in Brussels' Molenbeek district, on November 15, 2015. Five people were arrested in connection with the November 13 deadly attacks in Paris in the Molenbeek district in Brussels, according to officials. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
People make their way in the vicinity of a police intervention to arrest people in connection with the deadly attacks inParis, in Brussels' Molenbeek district, on November 15, 2015. Five people were arrested in connection with the November 13 deadly attacks in Paris in the Molenbeek district in Brussels, according to officials. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

The Salvation of Sinners and the Suicide Bomb

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Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Jihad movement attend a rally in Gaza City on March 29, 2008 urging Arab leaders gathered in for the Arab Summit in Damascus to support a bid to bridge the rift between rival Palestinian factions. President Bashar al-Assad opened a boycott-hit Arab summit today in the absence of half of the region's leaders, many of whom blame Damascus for the political crisis in Lebanon. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Jihad movement attend a rally in Gaza City on March 29, 2008 urging Arab leaders gathered in for the Arab Summit in Damascus to support a bid to bridge the rift between rival Palestinian factions. President Bashar al-Assad opened a boycott-hit Arab summit today in the absence of half of the region's leaders, many of whom blame Damascus for the political crisis in Lebanon. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

What ISIS Women Want

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A picture taken on December 3, 2015 at the Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France, outside Paris shows the wanted notice of terrorist Salah Abdeslam (L) and Mohamed Abrini. / AFP / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD (Photo credit should read KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images)
A picture taken on December 3, 2015 at the Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France, outside Paris shows the wanted notice of terrorist Salah Abdeslam (L) and Mohamed Abrini. / AFP / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD (Photo credit should read KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images)

Europe’s Joint-Smoking, Gay-Club Hopping Terrorists

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