Lucy James
Lucy James is a Research Fellow at the Quilliam Foundation, who also posts under her own name at The Spittoon.
In August 2009 James wrote a paper for the Quilliam Foundation responding to BNP claims about Muslims. She announced the publication of the paper in an article for the Labour Party's Progress magazine on 18 August 2009 in which she offered her approach as a preferable alternative to the 'violence' of anti-Fascist protesters. She wrote:
- Unfortunately, these anti-BNP protesters soon became violent – leading to a total of 19 protesters being arrested. Although it is good to see ordinary people protesting against the BNP, such protests become ineffective when they descend into thuggery and hooliganism.[1].
After Islamophobia-Watch.com drew attention to these accusations[2] The Spittoon published two posts attacking the website.[3][4] James followed the article with another for the Guardian's Comment is Free. However she qualified some of the claims to say that 'some' of the anti-Fascists 'soon became violent', and the words 'thuggery and hooliganism' were replaced with 'heavy-handed violence'.[5]
Affiliations
Publications
- Lucy James, In Defence of British Muslims: A response to BNP racist propaganda, Quilliam Foundation, 2009 (The paper features introductions by Jon Cruddas [Labour], Patrick Mercer [Conservative], and Fiyaz Mughal [Liberal Democrat])
References
- ↑ Lucy James, Protests too much, Progress, 18 August 2009
- ↑ Martin Sullivan, Quilliam accuses anti-BNP protestors of 'thuggery and hooliganism', Islamophobia Watch, 18 August 2009
- ↑ 'Yossarian', Bob and Bungle – Forget the BNP, let’s attack Quilliam, The Spittoon, 20 August 2009
- ↑ 'Yossarian', A Question of Priorities, The Spittoon, 23 August 2009
- ↑ Lucy James, The BNP will lose the argument, The Guardian, 20 August 2009
