Reply #83: One would have to define an 'anti-Muslim' article [View All]

[LeftishBrit]

There are certainly numerous articles that oppose Islamism; support liberalization of Islam; state that Muslim immigrants should open themselves to the values to their new society; recommend that we 'Just Say No to Sharia Law'; and so forth. I would not consider such views as anti-Muslim, but I am a secular leftist who agrees with such views. Some Muslims might consider them as anti-Muslim; some wouldn't (or even wrote some of them!). Similarly, different Jews may have different views as to what is antisemitic.

This article is not exactly anti-Muslim, but has views on the subject of Iraq which would arouse strong objections from most Muslims - and from almost everyone on DU:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/27/illegal-war-iraqis-hope-blair

ETA: on the whole, British writers and politicians tend not to be specifically anti-Muslim. They tend to be anti-IMMIGRANT; and that incorporates anti-Muslim sentiments. Nonetheless, some very influential writers have made specifically anti-Muslim comments, implying that Britain or Europe as a whole is 'overrun' by Muslims; e.g. the 'Eurabia' myth - and they tend to write in places far more widely read than Comment is Free.