Islamism: Shooting the Messenger
The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
Islam
A collection of 51 posts
An Undisciplined Novel
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s latest novel is a heavy-handed parable designed to show that Islamist radicalisation in Australia is merely a myth invented by a racist establishment. In the wake of the Bondi shooting, this seems less believable than ever.
Imre Salusinszky
· 8 min read
Cousin Marriage and Inbreeding: A Genetic History
What large-scale genomic data reveals about consanguinity, inherited disease, and the uneasy politics of discussing biological risk.
Zoe Booth, Francisco Ceballos
· 7 min read
Fanon and the Ayatollahs
The Third-Worldist roots of the Islamic Republic.
Aurele Tobelem
· 11 min read
Why Australia Struggles to Confront Islamic Antisemitism — and What This Means for Social Cohesion
Why has Australia proved reluctant to confront antisemitism when its sources are treated as culturally or religiously sensitive?
Zoe Booth, Alan Davison
· 7 min read
The Chanukah Terror Attack in Australia—and the Antisemitism Behind It
A video essay examining the Chanukah terror attack at Bondi Beach, the acts of courage that unfolded in its aftermath, and the ideological and institutional failures that allowed antisemitism in Australia to escalate unchecked.
Iona Italia
· 5 min read
Australia’s Selective Blindness
The refusal to discuss Islamic antisemitism in Australia endangers Jews and threatens social cohesion.
Alan Davison
· 7 min read
Father and Son, Partners in Terror
The identity of the Bondi Beach terrorists reveals some uncomfortable but important truths about antisemitism within Australia’s Muslim population.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 6 min read
Reporting from Bondi Beach After the Terror Attack
Claire Lehmann reports from Bondi Beach on the sombre atmosphere and public anger following the terror attack.
Claire Lehmann
· 2 min read
How Antisemitism Returned: From Medieval Europe to the Free Palestine Protests
Why is antisemitism resurging? Why has support for Hamas taken hold on Western campuses? And how do Qatar, media narratives, and fading Holocaust memory feed today’s crisis?
Benny Morris, Zoe Booth
· 6 min read
Quillette Podcast Episode #310: A Crisis of Tolerance
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Harry Saul Markham about the increasingly acute threat of Islamism in the UK and the normalisation of virulent antisemitism among British Muslims.
Quillette, Iona Italia
· 21 min read
Masculinity and Political Extremism with Sociologist Josh Roose | Quillette Cetera Ep. 49
As more young men search for meaning in a fragmented world, political sociologist Joshua Roose joins Zoe to explore how masculinity, disaffection, and the lure of belonging draw some toward Islamism, others to the far right.
Zoe Booth
· 12 min read
Jihadism Is the Problem
The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
Burning the Quran
Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms?
John Aziz
· 6 min read
Reading Nietzsche in Amsterdam
Lale Gül’s autobiographical novel about a young Muslim woman living in the Netherlands has led to death threats and ostracism. But it is a work of admirable intelligence and courage.
Brad Strotten
· 7 min read