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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
After Julie Burchill's Islamophobia towards @AyoCaesar, she appears to have lost her book contract

It appears her publisher realised the risk to its reputation to be associated with her racism & that Burchill may cross the line again during book promotion
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Some context on what Julie Burchill said to Ash Sarkar

Some context on broader issues of racism from Burchill

An article covering this

thebookseller.com/news/little-br…

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15 Dec
On the day the "think tank" he is Director of Policy is at (Quilliam), has its report on gang-related CSE (used by the far right) so clearly debunked *again*, you'd have thought he might have some humility.

But instead there is silence.
ICYMI:

Quilliam: there is an over-representation of (South) Asian men in group-based child sexual exploitation crimes
quilliaminternational.com/press-release-…

Home Office: “it is not possible" to make that conclusion
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At the time, expert Dr @DrEllaC highlighted the "sheer intellectual dishonesty & irresponsibility of releasing this tripe badged as “evidence”"

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15 Dec
The blind spot Baldét and other pro-Prevent propagandists have, is they don't seem to have a clue why Palestinians might find it wholly offensive to be in such a presentation.

Why is "vocal support for Palestine" even relevant to be in such a presentation?
The context matters.

This is not out of the blue....there are many cases where being vocally pro-Palestinian has led to accusations of extremism

aljazeera.com/features/2015/… ImageImage
This case study is on Prevent For Schools where discussing Palestine was deemed relevant.

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15 Dec
The Home Office review on "grooming gangs" finally published concludes:

1. “links between ethnicity and this form of offending” could not be proven
2. “Research has found that group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) offenders are most commonly white"
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
“Some studies suggest an over-representation of black and Asian offenders relative to the demographics of national populations. However, it is not possible to conclude that this is representative of all group-based CSE offending.”
The document said there were issues with the data used in existing studies, sample selection and a “potential for bias and inaccuracies”

Assume this is referring to studies like the Quilliam report that was widely debunked by experts at the time, yet was cited in national papers
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14 Dec
It is important to realise that Julie Burchill has a documented history of hate of Muslims & Islam, which is well known, yet has no bearing on her being a columnist at The Telegraph.

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Akin Ajayi in Haaretz, highlights how those who "makes the mistake of mentioning Muslims sympathetically in her presence" are her enemies.

haaretz.com/life/books/.pr…
Julie herself admits that she had a serious problem with her rabbi because she wanted to build bridges between Muslims and Jews.

telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-l…
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13 Dec
Telegraph columnist Julie Burchill should be ashamed of her repulsive tweet:

1. She got her facts wrong: Prophet Muhammad (SAW)'s first wife was a 40 yr old successful businesswoman

2. Why bring in the Prophet to a discussion about Liddle - only because Ash is a Muslim?
3. More importantly, why is she defending Liddle's disgusting article, where he “could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" (under-age and against the law -> would be considered rape)?
The reality is that columnists like Burchill make a conscious choice:

A) Attack Muslims like Ash
B) Defend people like Rod Liddle despite his long history of awful, racist & misogynist & hateful articles

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13 Dec
ICYMI: the Chinese embassy's claim is clearly not true for Uighur Muslims

1.China built 100s of internment camps in Xinjiang, detaining 100,000s of Uighur Muslims
2. Forced sterilisation cases uncovered in Xinjiang
3. 1000s of Xinjiang mosques destroyed or damaged (65% of total)
4. Merely practising Islam is considered suspicious behaviour

hrw.org/news/2020/12/0…
5. This is not new - in 2015, China banned Muslims from fasting in Ramadan
aljazeera.com/news/2015/6/18…
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