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Review – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s Refusing the Veil


Posted by tasnim on 02 Mar 2015 / 8 Comments
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s Refusing the Veil, part of the Provocations series by Biteback publishing, is a very short, refreshingly honest book about why the author thinks Muslim women should give up wearing the veil, in all its various forms, so that they can be liberated women in the 21st century. The book begins with a list […]

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Gareth Compton’s Tweet: A Stone’s Throw from Islamophobia


Posted by eren on 06 Dec 2010 / 0 Comments
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Last month, Tory councilor Gareth Compton was arrested and later released on bail for writing a message in Twitter that said: “Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan’t tell Amnesty if you don’t. It would be a blessing, really.” Compton has apologized for the Tweet and has declared that he was quite […]

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The Poor White Women: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on White Female Converts


Posted by safiyaoutlines on 26 Jan 2010 / 0 Comments
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is Muslim. In her articles she often likes to tell you this in the first sentence to give herself an air of authenticity. Therefore, when her articles are mere fodder for the further stereotyping and othering of Muslims, it is not because she is lazily feeding the expectations of her non-Muslim readers, but […]

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