Julie Burchill’s Book Contract Cancelled Over Islamophobic Tweets

The journalist Julie Burchill has had a book contract cancelled after her publisher said she “crossed a line” with her Islamophobic comments on Twitter. Burchill’s publisher, the Hachette imprint Little Brown, said it had decided not to publish Welcome to the Woke Trials because she had used indefensible language when communicating with the journalist Ash Sarkar. Sarkar said…

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Dispelling myths about British Muslims

June 21, 2014 Many people have come to regard Muslims as a backward group of religious extremists estranged from wider society and incapable of coming to terms with what it means to be British. This impression has been heightened by misleading press reporting and inflammatory statements from senior politicians. The so-called “Trojan horse” controversy concerning…

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New Book: Inventing the Muslim Cool: Islamic Youth Culture in Western Europe by Maruta Herding

June 4, 2014 Inventing the Muslim Cool: Islamic Youth Culture in Western Europe Maruta Herding May, 2014  Paper, 270 pages, 17 b&w 1 color ISBN: 978-3-8376-2511-0 Transcript-Verlag  In the current environment of a growing Muslim presence in Europe, young Muslims have started to develop a subculture of their own. The manifestations reach from religious rap and street wear with…

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Foreign Affair – ‘My Accidental Jihad,’ by Krista Bremer

May 23, 2014 There’s a scene in “My Accidental Jihad” in which Krista Bremer visits her husband’s relatives in Libya and sees a wheezing, skeletal old woman lying on a hospital bed in their living room. In America, someone so fragile would be in intensive care. Here, relatives greet the woman warmly and lean against…

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Two more book reviews on Andrew Hussey’s The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs

March 21, 2014   1) By Mathew Price on March 11, 2014 titled: ‘The trouble with France: the largest Muslim community in Europe seethes on the periphery’ http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/the-trouble-with-france-the-largest-muslim-community-in-europe-seethes-on-the-periphery#full   2) By Nick Fraser on March 16, 2014 titled: ‘The French Intifada review – ‘A courageous view of modern France’ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/16/french-intifada-review-courageous-modern-france-andrew-hussey

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