Islamophobia
Hating Muhammad echoes of a medieval polemic
As sketchy details surface about one person who has been alleged on a US website to be the director of ‘Innocence of Muslims’, and a recent French cartoon depicting Muhammad in a postmodern satirical form, both filmmaker and cartoonist join a long list of Muhammad-baiting Islamophobes.
By Hasnet Lais | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 26 September 2012 at 12:00 pm
The mosque is tired… our imams are clueless
Just before his passing, the late Cardinal Carlo Martini spoke damningly about the Catholic Church. As a Muslim, I feel digging behind his statement unearths a wisdom which many British Imams will find hard to swallow. The Cardinal’s remark is relevant to circumstances obtaining for Muslims who are dogged by the same servility to tradition and spiritual malady plaguing Christians.
By Hasnet Lais | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 12 September 2012 at 5:37 pm
Cold, clinical and sane: The only thing Anders Breivik’s terrorist attack must change is far-right racism
Anders Breivik is a far-right terrorist, not a madman. It is a difficult verdict for some to process: here is a man who methodically shot dead dozens of idealistic teenagers, either as they ran hyperventilating or stood paralysed with terror.
By Owen Jones | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 24 August 2012 at 1:07 pm
It’s time to stop using the term ‘Islamophobia’
Anyone who has ever had dealings with a marketing or PR department will probably have experienced at the time feelings similar to when they first encountered a foreign language. “Our new line of streamlined products will enhance our client-focused approach”, was how it was put to me a few days ago by a particularly polished “blue skies thinking” sort of person.
By James Bloodworth | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 3:00 am
How sensationalist-seeking political groups hinder the necessary dialogue between civilization and religion
Rather than explore the abhorrent politics of this faction of tired bigotry, I should like to shed light on an aspect of this conflict that is deeply harmful to civilisation and is consistently overlooked.
By Sebastian Murphy-Bates | Notebook | Thursday, 12 April 2012 at 10:43 am
Islamophobia: Why we have to get over our fears
‘Islamophobia is the new racism’ is now a seeming truism, or so Baroness Warsi and many others would have us believe. She claims that Islamophobia has ‘passed the dinner table test’ and that anti-Muslim prejudice is now normal and uncontroversial in respectable society. Warsi’s views are echoed by many British Muslims, who claim to experience such prejudice daily.
By Rania Hafez | Battle of Ideas | Monday, 7 November 2011 at 6:00 am
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