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| − | After the November 2015 Paris terror attacks, Black argued that concerns about increased Islamophobia in such contexts was not borne out by reality. | + | After the November 2015 Paris terror attacks, Black argued in a Spiked Online article that concerns about increased Islamophobia in such contexts was not borne out by reality. He wrote: |
: "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> | : "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 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.
The 'myth' of Islamophobia
After the November 2015 Paris terror attacks, Black argued in a Spiked Online article that concerns about increased Islamophobia in such contexts was not borne out by reality. He wrote:
- "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
- Tim Black, Frack to the Future, spikedonline, 31 March 2014 </ref>
Notes
- ↑ "Articles by Tim Black", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010
- ↑ Tim Black, AFTER PARIS: THE MYTH OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, spikedonline, 16 November 2015, accessed 24 January 2018
