“Is Time a Muslim magazine?” Phyllis Chesler want to know. She writes: “I did not think that the pro-Muslim/pro-Islamist and anti-Western propaganda could get any worse—and yet it just has. Time magazine has an August 30 cover story titled ‘Is America … Continue reading
Thus Phyllis Chesler’s response to the news that Tariq Ramadan will be speaking at New York’s Cooper Union on 8 April, following the lifting of the ban on his entering the US. Chesler herself probably won’t be turning up: “I … Continue reading
“You might notice that as this conflagration spreads, more and more conservatives – many of whom do not identify as feminists – are rushing in to stoke the fire. As they do, the discussion becomes less about defending women’s rights … Continue reading
Greenwood Junior School sent out a letter to parents saying the three-day festival of Eid al-Adha, which takes place between December 8 and 11, meant that Muslim children would be off school. That meant planning for the traditional nativity play … Continue reading
The appalling Phyllis Chesler (the US feminist who has compared Tariq Ramadan to Hitler) complains that “Western intellectual-ideologues, including feminists, have demonised me as a reactionary and racist ‘Islamophobe’ for arguing that Islam … is the largest practitioner of both … Continue reading
According to one Cinnamon Stillwell, “the real radical women in the world go largely unremarked by the feminist movement. Today’s true heroines are those who do battle with the gender apartheid, violence and oppression practiced against women in the Muslim world” … Continue reading
“In these contentious times, debate about the Middle East and Islam is easily stifled. All it takes is for some disgruntled Arabs, preferably Palestinians, or a handful of western leftists to level a charge of ‘racism’. Then the alleged offender, … Continue reading
On the principle of “we read this reactionary crap so you don’t have to”, Islamophobia Watch has invested in a copy of Brother Tariq, the English language edition of Caroline Fourest’s attack on Tariq Ramadan, recently published by the right-wing … Continue reading
As William Dalrymple observed back in 2004: “There are few things, you would imagine, that … Denis MacShane, Margaret Thatcher, the British National Party and the daytime television host Robert Kilroy-Silk would all agree on. Nevertheless … a deep disdain … Continue reading
In the current issue of the New Statesman Johann Hari reviews Mark Steyn’s Islamophobic fantasy America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Hari writes: “… if Steyn’s ‘warnings’ have a historical precedent, it is the hysteria among … Continue reading