Thread by @ColetteColfer

Just to state that I have submitted a letter to the @IrishTimes as a right to reply to #thePutinPiece in which one accusation levelled against those of us who participated in the #Liveline discussion is that we are right wing and engage in Muslim bashing. My letter may not appear

But in the meanwhile, in an attempt to publicly defend myself, I want to post a few thing’s from the IT in order to try to defend my name. Here is one article I write for the IT in June 2013 when I fasted for Ramadan in solidarity with Muslims in Ireland irishtimes.com/life-and-style…

And here is a piece by @conorkane covering a major event that I organised in order to try to increase understanding and acceptance of Muslims in Ireland in 2017: irishtimes.com/news/social-af…

Here is a recording of a talk I presented in WIT last year. It is entitled ‘The Seen and Unseen Shadows of the Holocaust in Ireland’ which features one of the most extraordinary and heartbreaking stories I’ve ever come across in my life

I just honestly can not get over the allegations published by @IrishTimes yesterday in the piece by @UnaMullally and so I felt it incumbent on me to begin my own defence. ENDS

I forgot also this event I organised in 2015 featuring @DrUmarAlQadri launching an anti radicalisation website developed by the Irish Muslim Peace and Integration Centre. Written by @ConorKane0909 irishtimes.com/news/social-af…

And I don’t just write about Islam in Ireland. Here is a link to an academic article I wrote about Hindus in Ireland cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/1…

Another event I organised - this one from 2015 when WIT college chapel was packed to capacity and overflowing to hear Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental speak. wit.ie/news/news/1000…

I forgot this too - another article I wrote for @IrishTimes - this one from 2013 and focusing on industrial warehouses used as places of worship in Ireland by Orthodox Christians, African Pentecostal, and Muslim groups: irishtimes.com/news/social-af…

I hope it is clear I am not ‘far right’. I am passionate about deep level diversity and inclusion - at the level of thought & belief - and about journalistic integrity which I learned about from interviewing the great Robert Fisk colettecolfer.medium.com/robert-fisk-re…

And finally, the only ‘religion’ I have ever studied or written about for which I have lost friends and been publicly vilified for not ‘believing’: broadsheet.ie/2022/04/26/col…