Author: Khola Maryam Hübsch

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Feminist author and publicist Alice Schwarzer (photo: picture-alliance/rtn - radio tele nord)

Alice Schwarzer: "The Shock – New Year's Eve in Cologne"

Curious bedfellows

In her new book, Alice Schwarzer is the first to finger a definite culprit in the New Year's Eve incidents in Cologne: "sharia Islam". In her reasoning she adopts the same interpretation of the Koran favoured by Muslim extremists, while providing fodder for Islamophobic right-wing populists. By Khola Maryam HubschMore

Cologne: New Year's Eve mob: Thinly veiled racism Cologne: sexual assaults and the press code: Outrage reaches new heightsNew Year′s Eve and Islam in Germany: A gift from the gods
Khola Maryam Hubsch (photo: dpa/picture-alliance)

Cologne: New Year's Eve mob

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Thinly veiled racism

Our outrage over the sexist Muslim male reveals a need to feel superior. It expresses a brand of cultural chauvinism that co-opts feminism as a means of diverting attention from its own sexist and racist shortcomings. A contribution by Khola Maryam HübschMore

Cologne: sexual assaults and the press code: Outrage reaches new heightsThe perception of Islam as the enemy: When fear creeps inThe headscarf in the colonial period: Remove your veils!
Khola Maryam Hubsch (photo: private)

The perception of Islam as the enemy

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When fear creeps in

The sudden rise of the Pegida movement in Germany has shown that many people here obviously have a deep-seated fear of Islam. Khola Maryam Hubsch wonders what it is that makes people fear a threat that doesn't actually existMore

The sudden rise of Germany's Islamophobic Pegida movement: "The product of a nervous society"Right-wing extremism and Islamophobia in Germany: Sending out a political signalIslamophobia: Evidence does not support fears of Islam in the WestMuslims in Germany: Blocked integration