12 July 2010

Islamophobia: Is the rejection of radical Islam "anti-Muslim"?

Recently the producer of a radio program dedicated to hosting authors declined to feature my latest book, Radical State, on her show. Without reading more than a couple of random pages, she pronounced the work "anti-Muslim" and therefore "inappropriate" to her audience.

(Radical State, for the record, advocates democracy and freedom and is "anti-" any force--Islamic or otherwise--that seeks to suppress them. If she'd read it, she'd have known that.) And then, just last week, my column opposing the construction of a mosque adjacent to Ground Zero had one reader calling me a "Nazi." Privately, I've been called an Islamophobe and even worse. [Forbes.com] Read more [via National Secular Society]