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[[Tim Black]] is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]] in that he is deputy editor of [[Spiked]],<ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/author/Tim%20Black/ Articles by Tim Black]", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010</ref> and also writes for [[Culture Wars]], has spoken at the [[Battle of Ideas]], the [[Manifesto Club]] and the [[Brighton Salon]] and has adjudicated for [[Debating Matters]].  
 
[[Tim Black]] is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]] in that he is deputy editor of [[Spiked]],<ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/author/Tim%20Black/ Articles by Tim Black]", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010</ref> and also writes for [[Culture Wars]], has spoken at the [[Battle of Ideas]], the [[Manifesto Club]] and the [[Brighton Salon]] and has adjudicated for [[Debating Matters]].  
  
He has been a researcher at the ''Times Educational Supplement'' and an online copywriter. He holds a Phd in English from the [[University of Sussex]].
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He has been a researcher at the ''Times Educational Supplement'' and an online copywriter. He holds a PhD in English from the [[University of Sussex]].
 
 
==Views on Islam==
 
 
 
: "And yet the backlash, Islam's night and no doubt day of broken glass, never arrives. There never is an anti-Muslim pogrom. There never is a mass eruption of spitting, niqab-renting hatred. Some nasty graffiti and unpleasant tweets, yes; perhaps, lamentably, a fire at a mosque; and even the odd, isolated physical attack on Muslim for no other reason than the fact he or she is a Muslim. But the actual anti-Muslim backlash, the actual fulfilment of Islamaphobia proponents' wet nightmares, the actual mass assault on each and every Muslim.... it continues to lack reality."
 
  
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==Islamophobia is a myth==
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After the November 2015 Paris attacks, Black argued that concerns about increased Islamophobia in such contexts was not borne out by reality. In a spiked online article he wrote that:
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: "And yet the backlash, Islam's night and no doubt day of broken glass, never arrives. There never is an anti-Muslim pogrom. There never is a mass eruption of spitting, niqab-renting hatred. Some nasty graffiti and unpleasant tweets, yes; perhaps, lamentably, a fire at a mosque; and even the odd, isolated physical attack on Muslim for no other reason than the fact he or she is a Muslim. But the actual anti-Muslim backlash, the actual fulfilment of Islamaphobia proponents' wet nightmares, the actual mass assault on each and every Muslim.... it continues to lack reality.' <ref> Tim Black, [http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/after-paris-the-myth-of-islamophobia/17635#.Wmfn0pP1WRt AFTER PARIS: THE MYTH OF ISLAMOPHOBIA], spikedonline, 16 November 2015, accessed 24 January 2018 </ref>
  
  

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Tim Black in 2010

Tim Black is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network in that he is deputy editor of Spiked,[1] and also writes for Culture Wars, has spoken at the Battle of Ideas, the Manifesto Club and the Brighton Salon and has adjudicated for Debating Matters.

He has been a researcher at the Times Educational Supplement and an online copywriter. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Sussex.

Islamophobia is a myth

After the November 2015 Paris attacks, Black argued that concerns about increased Islamophobia in such contexts was not borne out by reality. In a spiked online article he wrote that:

"And yet the backlash, Islam's night and no doubt day of broken glass, never arrives. There never is an anti-Muslim pogrom. There never is a mass eruption of spitting, niqab-renting hatred. Some nasty graffiti and unpleasant tweets, yes; perhaps, lamentably, a fire at a mosque; and even the odd, isolated physical attack on Muslim for no other reason than the fact he or she is a Muslim. But the actual anti-Muslim backlash, the actual fulfilment of Islamaphobia proponents' wet nightmares, the actual mass assault on each and every Muslim.... it continues to lack reality.' [2]


Articles

Notes

  1. "Articles by Tim Black", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010
  2. Tim Black, AFTER PARIS: THE MYTH OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, spikedonline, 16 November 2015, accessed 24 January 2018