Recent quotes:

Austria mulls quitting Saudi-backed KAICIID religious centre in Vienna

“This centre does not fulfil at all the mandate of dialogue and is silent about basic issues of human rights. We will not tolerate this. It is clear to me from today’s perspective that we should get out,”
#islamophobia #interfaith #austria #KSA - blogs.reuters.com

Islamism and the Left | Dissent Magazine

However, we maintain that the rising negative sentiments may have to do with the presence of a well-organized and well-funded Islamophobic industry that has managed to invade and capture civil society and public discourses without serious contestation.
#islamophobia - dissentmagazine.org

Islamism and the Left | Dissent Magazine

For some, rising anti-Muslim sentiments are immediately explained away as a “natural” outcome of the many violent events in the Muslim world and “terrorism” in general. However, we maintain that the rising negative sentiments may have to do with the presence of a well-organized and well-funded Islamophobic industry that has managed to invade and capture civil society and public discourses without serious contestation. Up to this point, anti-racist and progressive voices have not been effective in challenging this industry, nor have they been able to provide the needed resources to mount regional and national responses.
#islamophobia - dissentmagazine.org

Islamism and the Left | Dissent Magazine

The Arab world today,” Said wrote, “is an intellectual, political, and cultural satellite of the United States.” Islamic revivalism is nowhere anticipated in Said’s book. Indeed, he takes Bernard Lewis’ insistence on the “importance of religion in the current affairs of the Muslim world” to be an example of Orientalism. And a year later, in The Question of Palestine, Said calls “the return to ‘Islam’” a “chimera.”7
#Left #islamophobia #islamism #orientalism - dissentmagazine.org

Islamism and the Left | Dissent Magazine

So the Islamic revival is a kind of testing moment for the left: can we recognize and resist “the possibility of tyranny?” Some of us are trying to meet the test; many of us are actively failing it. One reason for this failure is the terrible fear of being called “Islamophobic.” Anti-Americanism and a radical version of cultural relativism also play an important part, but these are older pathologies. Here is something new: many leftists are so irrationally afraid of an irrational fear of Islam that they haven’t been able to consider the very good reasons for fearing Islamist zealots—and so they have difficulty explaining what’s going on in the world.
#islamophobia #islamism #terrorism - dissentmagazine.org

Paris shootings: Terror, sadness but also strength - Telegraph

Charb, she says, was finishing a book to do away with the false Islamophobia concept – a concept assuming that criticising an idea is racism. It will soon be published under the Charlie imprint.
#islamophobia - telegraph.co.uk