talking
reading
These are links to newspaper articles
and blogs that
discuss or mention
my work and arguments.
These are links to newspaper articles
and blogs that
discuss or mention
my work and arguments.
Salman Rushdie and the Jaipur Literary Festival: the zealots have triumphed again
Allan Massie
Daily Telegraph, 25 January 2012
Mirthless Moralisers vs Free Speech
Tauriq Moosa
Big Think , 24 January 2012
Can't take Bombay out of the boy
Salil Tripathi
Live Mint, 19 January 2012
'Christendom droeg zelf weinig bij aan Europese cultuur'
Robin de Wever
Trouw, 8 November 2011
De Mythe van het Christelijke Europa
Gerard Driehuis
Welingelichte Kringen, 25 October 2011
Raymond Tallis Takes Out the 'Neurotrash'
Marc Perry
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 October 2011
Storbritanniens politikere har skabt et moralsk underskud
Troels Heeger
Information, 16 August 2011
Das ist keine Aufklärung!
Kai Rogusch
Migazin, 25 May 2011
Will pharmacogenetics lead to colour-coded medicine?
Nishat Hyder
BioNews, 23 May 2011
Torture is still wrong
The Economist, 9 May 2011
Effective! And still wrong - the case against pragmatic ethics
Timothy P Carney
Washington Examiner, 9 May 2011
Att göra muslimer till 'de andra'
Daniel Wiklander
Arbteran, 13 April 2011
Extracts from the Offence series
Seagull Books, 11 April 2011
How the Brixton riots, 30 years ago today, handed power to the mosques
Ed West,
Daily Telegraph,
11 April 2011
Fallout creations?
Sascha Akhtar
Himal, 8 April 2011
Det multikulturelle samfund er ikke problemet men løsningen
Mrutyuanjai Mishra
Jyllands-Posten, 26 March 2011
Danish Dynamite
Fredrik Ekelund
Sydsvenskan, 23 March 2011
Multikulti-vanvid i København
Troels Heeger and Søren Villemoes
Jyllands-Posten, 22 March 2011
Omfavnelsen av antiliberale eksmuslimer
Mohammad Usman Rana
Aftenposten, 2 March 2011
The End of Multiculturalism?
Straboek News, 19 February 2011
Masseindvandring og multikultur
Klaus Rothstein
Weekendavisen, 14 January 2011
Venstrefløjen har gjort racisme til en etnisk identitet
Interview by Anna von Sperling
Information, 10 January 2011
Why Salman Rushdie's book was burned
Maureen Freely
Washington Post, 9 January 2011
Malik om Stockhom i BT
Hans Rustad
Document, 16 December 2010
I've got a great idea – why doesn't the Government
just leave the 'Muslim community' alone?
Ed West,
Telegraph Blogs, 15 December 2010
'Four Lions': comedy about would-be terrorists
Dan Margolis
People's World, 14 December 2010
Humanism beyond the New Atheism
Caspar Melville
Fritanke, 8 December 2010
Der Kulturalismus ist eine reaktionäre Kraft
Interview with Frederik Stjernfelt
Jungle World, 2 December 2010
The story so far
David Goodhart
Prospect, December 2010
Tolerance of diversity
Pravin Sheth
Ahmedabad Mirror, 25 November 2010
Kenan Malik: Fra Fatwa til Jihad
Henrik Gade Jensen
Jyllands-Posten, 19 November 2010
Alt dette har vi (ikke) lært af 'De sataniske vers'
Anders Jerichow
Politiken, 19 November 2010
From Fatwa to Jihad
Don Margolis
Guernica, 17 November 2010
Have the authorities not got a twitter of sense?
Don Anderson
Belfast Telegraph, 16 November 2010
The politics of secularism
Dolan Cummings
Culture Wars, 18 September 2010
Are dying languages worth saving?
Tom de Castella
BBC News Magazine, 15 September 2010
The spillover effect
Saif Shahin
livemint.com, 11 September 2010
History's greatest bookburners
Judith Miller
The Daily Beast, 8 September 2010
Cheating? To be fair it is cricket
Mick Hume
spiked-online, 1 September 2010
Till frihetens försvar
Lars Åberg
Expressen, 9 September 2010
From Fatwa to Jihad
Jordan Michael Smith
Christian Science Monitor, 13 August 2010
Multiculturalism threatens free thinking
Garth Jones
New Zealand Herald, 5 August 2010
Omfavnelsen av antiliberale eksmuslimer
Mohammad Usman Rana
Aftenposten, 24 June 2010
Vilks fick som han ville
Lars Lindström
Expressen, 12 May 2010
The sacred in 'South Park'
Salil Tripathi
livemint.com, 28 April 2010
Orwell Prize shortlist announced
Anna Leach
Guardian, 15 April 2010
Battle of the babies
Caspar Melville
New Humanist, March-April 2010
Veckan som gick
Mats Johansson
Svensk Tidskrift, 15 January 2010
Pick of the paperbacks
Ophelia Field, Sally Cousins & Katie Owen
Sunday Telegraph, 10 January 2010
Index on Censorship self-censors in article about Yale University Press's self-censorship
Eugene Volokh
The Huffington Post, 5 January 2010
Laten we vooral lekker blijven doorzeuren
Elma Drayer
Trouw, 31 December 2009
Index on Censorship meets the enemy within
Wendy Kaminer
The Atlantic, 21 December 2009
The Times Christmas books: science
Anjana Ahuja
Times, 5 December 2009
Lyckad fatwa
Lena Andersson
Dagens Nyheter, 21 November 2009
Elke vooruitgang vereist belediging
Kustaw Bessems
De Pers, 16 November 2009
Här börjar en ny tid
Magnus Eriksson, Svenska Dagbladet, 13 November 2009
Ny bok om Islam
Einar Pettersen, Tidens Krav, 6 November 2009
Ytringsfrihet, men...
Frank Rossavik, Bergens Tidende, 3 November 2009
The Black Album: adapted to the stage 20 years after The Satanic Verses affair
Lee P Ruddin
History News Network, 30 October 2009
Fatwa, jihad og multikulturalisme
Lasse Midttun
Morgenbladet, 30 October 2009
En seier og et nederlag
Knut Olav Åmås
Aftenposten, 29 October 2009
Rushdie-sakens lange skygge
Thomas Berg
Dagbladet, 29 October 2009
En samtale med Kenan Malik
Hans Rustad
Document, 29 October 2009
Kenan Malik - misstagen identitet
Waldemar Ingdahl
Tidningen Kulturen, 19 October 2009
Internalized fatwa
Susannah Tarbrush
Qantara, 12 October 2009
How official anti-racism holds black children back
Adrian Hart
spiked review of books, September 2009
C]nd progresul merge invers
Cristian Ghinea
Dilema Veche, 3 December 2009
Multikulturelles Eigentor
Matthias Heitmann
Die Welt, 7 August 2009
The long road home
Claire Scobie
Observer Magazine, 28 June 2009
Keep talking
BBC Leeds, 10 June 2009
No speech please, we're British
Christopher Caldwell
The Weekly Standard, 2 March 2009
Multiculturalism and diversity: A reply to Kenan Malik
Radostin Kaloianov
Eurozine, 20 February 2009
Opinion: Fitna
Lawrence Boyce
Liberal Democrat Voice, 17 February 2009
Arven etter fatwaen
Annette Orre
Dagasivisen, 16 February 2009
Speech impediments
The Economist, 14 February 2009
Satanic Verses' polarising untruths
Lawrence Pollard
BBC News, 14 February 2009
Ten diepste blasfemisch
Thierry Chervel
Trouw, 14 February 2009
Der Fluch der 'Satanischen Verse'
Georges Waser
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 February 2009
'Να ενθαρρύνουμε τους ανθρώπους να γίνονται προσβλητικοί...'
Katerina Economakou
Eleftherotypia, 14 February 2009
Islamkritiker Wilders testet Grenzen der Freiheit
Sebastian Borger
Berliner Morgenpost, 14 February 2009
Rushdie e la fatwa il fallimento liberal
Richard Newbury
La Stampa, 13 February 2009
Tödliche Furcht vor dem freien Denken
Jochen Wittmann
Kölnische Rundschau, 13 February 2009
Salman Rushdie i dalje simbol slobode govora
Glas Slavonije, 13 February 2009
Still in shadow of fatwa
Straits Times, 11 February 2009
Disturbing fallout of the Rushdie fatwa
Danny Finkelstein
Comment Central, The Times, 9 February 2009
Vorauseilende Unterwerfung
Thierry Chervel
Der Tagesspiegel, 7 February 2009
(English version)
Tilbake til start
Annette Orre
Dagsavisen, 24 January 2009
How one book ignited a cultural war
Andrew Anthony
Observer, 11 January 2009
The challenge of fundamentalism and imperialism:
Can secular Muslims work together?
Tarek Fatah
Indus Asia Online Journal, 11 January 2009
Quelques réflexions sur le concept d'islamophobie
Elif Kayi
Le Matin, 3 January 2009
Return of the storytellers
William Skidelsky
Observer, 28 December 2008
Virtuoos fileren
Elma Drayer
Trouw, 13 December 2008
Can a 4 year old be racist?
Madeleine Brettingham
TES, 24 October 2008
Sparking
danger with passion
Sunday Times, 5 October 2008
Respect for religion now makes censorship the norm
Jo Glanville
Guardian, 30 September 2008
The
right to offend
Inayat Bunglawala
Comment is free, 29 September 2008
Creationism
in class is nothing to fear
Melanie McDonagh
The Times, 12 September 2008
Book festival: American elections and the throny issue of race
Susan Mansfield,
Scotsman, 19 August 2008
One
law fits all
The Australian, 26 June 2008
Multikulturalism leder till elände
Nathan Shachar
Dagens Nyheter, 18 April 2008
Problem with the pinstriped maverick
The Herald, 13 March 2008
White season
Andrew Billen
The Times, 10 March 2008
Powell's prophecies
Oliver Kamm
9 March 2008
Down with 'enoughism'
Daniel Ben-Ami
spiked review of books, March 2008
Batı dünyasında neler oluyor?
Alev Alatli
Zaman, 2 February 2008
'It's like bombing the Louvre'
Mark Abley
Guardian, 28 January 2008
Tabloid adopsjon
Kadra Yusuf
Aftenposten, 11 January 2008
På vildspor mod lighed
Interview by Heidi Plougsgaard in Kulturweekend, Jyllands-Posten,
8 November 2007
(I will post a link when I am able to)
Race and genetics: racism vs. realism?
Peter McKnight
Halifax News, 6 November 2007
Radical
Islam in Europe
CQ Global Researcher, November 2007
(The CQ Global Researcher is a paid subscription service; the link is to a free
online pdf copy)
Pamuk
tells BBC: Moderate political Islamists want EU,
Secularists want to lean on the military
New Anatolina, 15 September 2007
Pamuk:
Islamists in Turkey more respectful to democracy than secularists
New Zaman, 14 September 2007
Interkultureller Dialog: Kulturzoo statt Demokratie?
Sabine Reul
Novo, July / August 2007
Open
letter to Tariq Ramadan
David Goodhart
Propect, June 2007
Multiculturalism - tribalism recycled
Wolfgang Bruno
Global Politician, 16 May 2007
Speak to me as a citizen who happens to be Muslim
Ali Miraj
Muslim News, 23 February 2007
Democracy and identity: Building a global union
Jack Straw, MP
Cyril Foster Lecture, University of Oxford
25 January 2007
Facing
the Islamist menace
Christopher Hitchens
City Journal, Winter 2007
Play
your race cards right
John Lloyd
Financial Times, 15 December 2006
Britons review their multicultural experiment
James Button
The Age, 9 December 2006
Are Muslims a threat to free speech?
Neil Davenport
spiked online, 24 October 2006
How
rightwing the left sounds after its moment of racial truth
Rod Liddle
Sunday Times, 27 August 2006
Antidebattanten
Hilde Sandvik
Bergens Tidende, 29 August 2006
In
Britain-Pakistan ties, cricket's the easy part
Alan Cowell
New York Times, 22 August 2006
The British are not a people who can be terrorised into changing their ways
Dominic Lawson
Independent, 7 July 2006
Atmosphère suffocante dans le Londonistan
Ernst Hillebrand
Communautarisme.net, 1 July 2006
Faith
in the secular
John Lloyd
Financial Times, 30 June 2006
'After
the Rushdie affair, Islam in Britain became fused
with an agenda of murder'
Melanie Philliips
Observer, 28 May 2006
'Joe,
I suspect, has no sense at all that he was born, or will die'
Michael Blastland
New Statesman, 17 April 2006
The
end of freedom?
Andrew Anthony
Observer , 12 February 2006
Gud är tillbaka i vardagspolitiken
Lars Åberg
Göteborgs-Posten, 20 December 2005
No
offence meant - but plenty taken
Thomas Sutcliffe
Independent on Sunday, 30 September 2005
Are
we sleepwalking our way to apartheid?
Richard Woods and David Leppard
Sunday Times, 18 September 2005
Multiculturalism's many challenges
Frances Stead Sellers
Washington Post, 22 August 2005
It's paranoia, not Islamophobia
David Goodhart
Guardian, 15 July 2005
The politics of paranoia: The Muslim view
Torcuil Crichton
Sunday Herald, 6 March 2005
Is
Islamophobia a myth?
Muslim Council of Britain and Hizb ut-Tahrir
Prospect, March 2005
Stop this folly now
Tomothy Garton Ash
Guardian, 17 February 2005
In
the grip of panic
Jonathan Freedland
Guardian, 22 January 2005
Endangered
languages
Elizabeth Browlow
Documenting Endangered Languages of the Pacific, 2005
Exploitation
films in the severe style
Marco Maurizi
Soundscapes
What makes us exceptional?
Sandy Starr
spiked online, 29 December 2004
Facing
the fear of bioterrorism
Bill Durodie
spiked online, 9 November 2004
Endangered
Languages: There's nothing benign about benign neglect
Suzanne Romaine
Norrag News, 34, September 2004
Diversity
divide
David Goodhart
Prospect, April 2004
Say no more
Jack Hitt
New York Times, 29 February 2004
(Full access only to subscribers)
Close
the door before it is too late
David Goodhart
Guardian, 19 February 2004
Integration
or Disintegration?
IWCA, 28 January 2004
What Edward Said
James Heartfield
spiked online, 1 October 2003
Taking stock of answers science cannot provide
Interview by Deborah Smith
Sydney Morning Herald, 5-6 July 2003
These
chimps are fishing for ants... but does this ritual make them cultured?
Roger Highfield
Daily Telegraph, 31 October 2002
Chimpanzees
are cultured creatures
Guardian, 24 September 2002
The
anti-imperialism of fools
Mick Hume
New Statesman, 27 June 2002
Re-reading
Darwin
Matt Ridley,
Prospect, August 2001
(full access only to subscribers)
Are
animals persons?
D Balasubramanian
The Hindu, 7 December 2000
Nonsense
on stilts
Edward Skidelsky
New Statesman, 5 June 2000
'Ebonics and the danger of racial politiics'
Helen Halyard,
World Socialist, 21 April 1997