Ibn Warraq
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Ibn Warraq
Activities
- March 2006, he signed MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism, a manifesto against 'Islamic totalitarianism' that gained wide publicity and for which he and the other 11 signatories, including Salman Rushdie, Caroline Fourest, Maryam Namazie, Taslima Nasreen, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali received death threats. [1]
- Attended 2006 conference celebrating murdered Pim Fortuyn’s political party, Lijst Pim Fortuyn, where according to Douglas Murray:
- "The organisers had assembled nearly all the writers most critical of Islam’s current manifestation in the West. The American scholars Daniel Pipes and Robert Spencer were present, as were the Egyptian-Jewish exile and scholar of dhimmitude, Bat Ye’or, and the great Muslim apostate Ibn Warraq."[2]
On 24 February 2009 attended meeting alongside anti-Muslim Dutch MP Geert Wilders with the Wall Street Journal editorial board. [3]
Affiliations
- International Free Press Society board of advisers.
- New English Review
- Former Muslims United
Notes
- ↑ Prochoix.org
- ↑ Douglas Murray, We should fear Holland’s silence Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country, The Sunday Times, February 26, 2006.
- ↑ Baron Bodissey, The Doctrine of Moral Equivalence, The Gates of Vienna, 2 March 2009.