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In the wake of the massacre in Manchester, people rightly warn against blaming the entire Muslim community in Britain and the world. Certainly one of the aims of those who carry out such atrocities is to provoke the communal punishment of all Muslims, thereby alienating a portion of them who will then become open to recruitment by Isis and al-Qaeda clones. This approach of not blaming Muslims in general but targeting “radicalisation” or simply “evil” may appear sensible and moderate, but in practice it makes the motivation of the killers in Manchester or the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015...

Steven Schook, an outspoken former U.S. Army general, said he had not been officially informed of the probe by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight but learned of the allegations through questions asked of his staff on Tuesday. As far as he was aware they included displaying "aggressive behaviour", having "personal relationships" with local and international female U.N. staff and having an "unprofessionally close relationship" with Energy Minister Ethem Ceku and Ramush Haradinaj, a former prime minister and war crimes defendant. Asked if he was resigning, Schook replied: "Absolutely not." "I know that, based upon how I do business and...