23 April 2012

New Statesman on putting 'mainstream Islamophobia' on trial

.... Wilby begins by recounting the wholly misleading, ‘Cafe owner ordered to remove extractor fan in case smell of frying bacon offends passing Muslims’ story, which was published in the Daily Mail in October 2010.

The complainant was a British non-Muslim, whose daughter’s health was affected by the extractor fan, and who allegedly had Muslim and non-Muslim friends who avoided his house because of the smell. The only Muslim mentioned in the story was the café-owner’s Turkish-Muslim husband (the story was shockingly cleared by the PCC). [ENGAGE] Read more