Simon Cottee

Simon Cottee is an academic who works as a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent, and is a regular contributor to The Atlantic. He previously worked at Bangor University and the University of the West Indies' Trinidad campus.

He is the author of The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam (Hurst Publishers, 2015), which the publishers claim is "the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the Western secular context". In a review published in New Humanist, Alom Shaha wrote that the book "brings sensitivity and empathy to an intensely polarised debate". Nick Cohen, writing in The Spectator, argues that Cottee "shows how elements in the left and academia are happy to denounce Muslims who exercise their freedom to abandon their religion as 'native informers' who have gone over to the side of western imperialism". His collection of essays, ISIS and the Pornography of Violence, came out in 2019. His book Black Flags of the Caribbean: How Trinidad Became an ISIS Hotspot, published in 2021, theorizes the ideology of the Jamaat al Muslimeen led to the rise of ISIS support in Trinidad.

Cottee is also editor, with Thomas Cushman, of Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left (New York University Press, 2008). Cottee's published research also includes journal articles on topics including the murder of Theo van Gogh and the motivations of terrorists. He has argued that gang culture offers a way of understanding the appeal of ISIS . Cottee also argues that the group's propaganda videos have a "pornographic quality". He was interviewed for The MatchMaker, a documentary about ISIS recruiter Tooba Gondal.

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  1. ↑ "Simon Cottee". The Atlantic. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Dr Simon Cottee". University of Kent. 25 November 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Anthony, Andrew (17 May 2015). "Losing their religion: the hidden crisis of faith among Britain's young Muslims". The Observer. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  4. ↑ Sherkat, Darren E. (22 June 2015). "Losing Their Religion: When Muslim Immigrants Leave Islam". Foreign Affairs.
  5. ↑ Shaha, Alom (19 May 2015). "What happens when Muslims leave Islam?". New Humanist. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Cohen, Nick (28 February 2015). "How liberal Britain is betraying ex-Muslims". The Spectator. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  7. ↑ Cottee, Simon (2019). ISIS and the pornography of violence. London, UK New York, NY: Anthem Press. ISBN 978-1-78308-967-3.
  8. ↑ Cottee, Simon (2021). Black Flags of the Caribbean: How Trinidad Became an ISIS Hotspot. London: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited. ISBN 978-0-7556-1693-0.
  9. ↑ Badri-Maharaj, Sanjay (22 September 2022). "Black Flags of the Caribbean: How Trinidad Became an ISIS Hotspot , by Simon Cottee". New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 96 (3–4): 373–374. doi:10.1163/22134360-09603019. ISSN 1382-2373. Archived from the original on 24 January 2025.
  10. ↑ Freedland, Jonathan (17 July 2008). "Falling Hawks". New York Review of Books. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "Academic papers". Simon Cottee. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  12. ↑ Ahmed, Abdul-Azim (20 February 2015). "Faithwashing ISIS". On Religion. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  13. ↑ Cottee, Simon (12 September 2014). "The Pornography of Jihadism". The Atlantic. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  14. ↑ "The MatchMaker - Openddb" (in Italian). Retrieved 28 July 2026.