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The Elephant in the Mosque

JL;DR SUMMARY Daniel Saunders' guest essay critiques Baroness Sayeeda Warsi's book, which claims pervasive Islamophobia in the West leveraging a comparison with David Baddiel's work on antisemitism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TerrorismMedia RepresentationIslamophobiaExtremismPolitical DiscourseMiddle East ConflictsMuslim PopulationDavid BaddielSayeeda Warsi

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London, United Kingdom
"Warsi attacks Suella Braverman for referring to pro-Hamas marches in London as hate marches, but its hard to know what else to call marches where banners frequently showed the Star of David compared to the swastika, Israel was consigned to the dustbin, and support was voiced for proscribed terrorist organisations like Hamas and Hezbollah."
Israel
"For all the myriad problems that these groups have, many being more pro-Palestine and anti-Zionist than pro-peace, they do show the extent to which the Jewish conversation is geared towards peace, not violence."
Australia
"As I was reading the book, two Muslim nurses in Australia were fired after claiming to have murdered Israeli patients; Im sure Warsi would present that as they were fired for supporting Gazans against Israel."

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