Oborne concludes that in today’s climate the media say things about Islam and Muslims they would never say about other groups. When he replaces the word’ ‘Muslim’ in some recent headlines with ‘Jews’, ‘Blacks’ and ‘Gays’ and shows them to members of the public, they find those headlines deeply offensive.
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At Obama’s old school in Jakarta earlier this year, an establishment scurrilously described as a madrassa” in all the innuendo, a gentle principal showed me the large mosque and small Christian prayer room. He then invoked the words emblazoned on the coat of arms of Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country: “Unity in diversity.”
Roger Cohen [...]
February 12, 2008 – 11:56 pm
Criticism of Islam segues effortlessly with prejudice against black immigrants. “Niggers out” no longer wins many votes, but Muslim-bashing presses the same political buttons. For our rulers, Islam is a doubly-convenient scapegoat for resistance to the West’s “war on terror”. Any discussion of Islam today is therefore a discussion about war and about racism. By [...]
February 10, 2008 – 8:23 pm
An initial observation of the website highlighted an overwhelming focus on news reports linked to Islam and Muslims in the UK i.e. there were reports on honour based violence, “The West Islam and Islamism” and “Hate on the State: How British libraries encourage Islamic extremism”. There were news reports with headlines such as “The Grand [...]
February 2, 2008 – 10:11 am
The candidates who played to fears of “Islamic fascism” the most — Tancredo, Huckabee and Giuliani — failed to light any fire under partisans in the party, and they have now faded from the scene. But the campaign has already left behind a bitter legacy of sloganeering against a single religious and ethnic community. The [...]
January 30, 2008 – 5:50 pm
The claim about marches and processions is a plain falsehood, since the streets marched on become normal streets within hours of the march ending. On top of this, only Bareilawis march for religious reasons, namely mawlid, which is not a central part of Islam. Only dedicated mosques are sacred space. So Boris allowed someone to [...]
January 28, 2008 – 9:03 pm
Some today might wish for a “world without Islam” in which these problems presumably had never come to be. But, in truth, the conflicts, rivalries, and crises of such a world might not look so vastly different than the ones we know today, Fuller concludes. In short, Fuller has done a great job in spelling [...]
January 21, 2008 – 8:33 am
Writing as a Muslim myself, I can say that Muslims are well aware that many non-Muslims drink alcohol. (Actually, some Muslims do as well, although they are not supposed to.) As I wrote in a comment on the Statesman website, I do not care as long he is not actually drunk on the job, and [...]
January 18, 2008 – 10:56 pm
The plain fact that Maher can’t quite get his head around is that Livingstone is a genuinely popular figure in London, including among the capital’s 700,000+ Muslims. The mayor of London has a long and proud record of opposing racism and prejudice against minorities. And frankly, who can blame them for being a bit wary [...]
