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 5 Feb 2025 · 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 25 Oct 2024 · 7 min read
The Muslim Choice: Integration or Confrontation Liberalising trends within Islam are facing resistance from radicals committed to a narrative of victimhood and grievance. John Lloyd 3 Sep 2024 · 33 min read
Podcast #249: The (Other) Scandal at Oberlin College Jonathan Kay speaks with Roya Hakakian about the rise and fall of Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, a former Iranian official who’d presented himself to Oberlin as an agent of peace and ‘forgiveness.’ Quillette 29 Aug 2024 · 23 min read
The Problem Is Islam—Not Islamism The problem here is not a subset of Islamic thought, but the fundamentals of Islam itself. Obaid Omer 23 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
What I Learnt Interviewing Jihadists A conversation about Iran, Israel, and Islamic terrorism with Iraqi researcher Suha Hassen. Zoe Booth / Suha Hassen 9 Aug 2024 · 20 min read
Disuniting Australia What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam? Alan Davison 7 Aug 2024 · 17 min read
The Iranian Connection Tracing Tehran's ties to the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah. Pierre James / Suha Hassen 16 Jan 2024 · 16 min read
Why Iran is the Key to Peace in the Middle East Many Iranians perceive Israel as a potential ally in their struggle against Islamic oppression. Armin Navabi 4 Jan 2024 · 10 min read
Gaza, Islam, and the West The Hamas atrocities of October 7th have refocussed attention on the place of a consequential voting bloc in Western democracies. RJ Smith 11 Nov 2023 · 7 min read
Houellebecq's New Memoir and the Recent Riots in France: Quillette Cetera Episode 10 The French polemicist's memoir invites us to pity him, but should we? Zoe Booth / RJ Smith 25 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Words Are the Only Victors Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a powerful reminder of his vital role in the endless battle for free speech. Christian Kriticos 28 Feb 2023 · 11 min read
Social Panic at Sundance Meg Smaker’s film about the rehabilitation of former Guantanamo terror suspects was nuanced and sympathetic. But the mob didn’t care. M. Pollino 14 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
Salman Rushdie and the Islamic Punishment for Blasphemy For centuries, the orthodox Muslim view has been that those who insult Muhammad must be summarily killed. Gordon Nickel 2 Sep 2022 · 14 min read
From Playboy Sports Star to Islamist Politician: The Strange Turn of Imran Khan A further irony is that while Khan presses ahead with entrenching Islam in every nook and cranny of the polity and society, other Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia, are toning down the hard-line version of Islam that they have long promulgated. Rumy Hasan 23 Oct 2021 · 6 min read
