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Hate crime hooey.(Other Countries)
Hate Crime Hooey
Kenan Malik, "The Islamophobia Myth," Prospect, February 2005 (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
Commentators and journalists frequently claim that Britain and other Western nations are amidst a huge backlash against Muslims, with racist attacks and police harassment becoming commonplace. Writer and broadcaster Kenan Malik was commissioned by a British television station to make a film about this scandalous "Islamophobia." The problem is, he could find no evidence of it.
Summarizing his research for the liberal British magazine Prospect, Malik writes, "My personal experience and the statistics that do exist both challenge these claims. When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, racism was vicious and often fatal." Stabbings and fire-bombings, racist murders, and racially motivated attacks plagued certain areas. "Britain is a different place now--even for Muslims. There are still racist attacks.... Yet we ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London KENAN MALIK February 14, 1995 700+ words
Two recent events have revived the debate about whether criminal behaviour is genetically determined. In the United States, Stephen Mobberley, a convicted murderer, is appealing against his death sentence on the grounds that his crime was the product of a genetic predisposition. In Britain, the
- BOOK REVIEW / The eve of destruction
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London KENAN MALIK February 18, 1996 700+ words
...conclusions should bear out the truth of this. Biodiversity is too important an issue for the debate to be dominated by gut emotion rather than scientific reason. Kenan Malik's next book, 'The Meaning of Race', will be published in April.
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Kenan Malik July 21, 2009 700+ words
...Hanif Kureishi's stage version of his novel The Black Album explores Muslim fundamentalism, youth culture and alienation. Kenan Malik sits in on rehearsals I am sitting in Rehearsal Room 2, in the maze that is the working space beneath the National Theatre...
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- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) March 10, 2005 700+ words
...dull programme.) Immigration Is a Time Bomb 9pm, Channel 4 A contrasting programme to Monday's defence of immigration by Kenan Malik, this polemic by Rod Liddle (right) criticises what he calls the Government's "open door" policy and asks what impact...
- 'Scientific racist' must not be gagged, say opponents
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Ros Wynne-Jones August 18, 1996 700+ words
...defend the right of "scientific racist" Christopher Brand to publish his work. Marek Kohn, author of The Race Gallery and Kenan Malik, author of The Meaning of Race, will call for the publication of The g-Factor, in which Mr Brand, an Edinburgh University...
- Letter: `Designer' babies: false concerns, researchers' arrogance, threat to...
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London From Mr TOBY ADAMS January 5, 1994 700+ words
Sir: Kenan Malik is right to emphasise that a black woman giving birth to a white baby is no different from a blue-eyed woman giving birth to...
- Letter: Moral issues raised by `designer babies'
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London From Ms SUSAN FORFAR January 7, 1994 700+ words
...As the black mother (my father was from Jamaica) of two white, grey-eyed blonde children, I wholeheartedly endorse Kenan Malik's arguments in his article "Children of a confused society" (3 January). Nature has none of the objections to mixed...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History Smithers, Gregory D. February 1, 2008 700+ words
...repetition--a problem common to collections of previously published essays--Williams joins other excellent scholars such as Kenan Malik, Ann Laura Stoler, and Lee D. Baker in demonstrating the malleability of racial ideas and their power to continue to divide...
