Most recent articles by Khola Maryam Hübsch
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Alice Schwarzer: "The Shock – New Year's Eve in Cologne"Curious bedfellows
In her new book, Alice Schwarzer is the first to finger a definite culprit in the New Year's Eve incidents in Cologne: "sharia Islam". In her reasoning she adopts the same interpretation of the Koran favoured by Muslim extremists, while providing fodder for Islamophobic right-wing populists. By Khola Maryam Hubsch
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Cologne: New Year's Eve mobThinly veiled racism
Our outrage over the sexist Muslim male reveals a need to feel superior. It expresses a brand of cultural chauvinism that co-opts feminism as a means of diverting attention from its own sexist and racist shortcomings. A contribution by Khola Maryam Hübsch
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The perception of Islam as the enemyWhen fear creeps in
The sudden rise of the Pegida movement in Germany has shown that many people here obviously have a deep-seated fear of Islam. Khola Maryam Hubsch wonders what it is that makes people fear a threat that doesn't actually exist