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

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Psychologists sound the alarm: in December 2019 Iran's health minister warned of the high economic and social costs of mental illness in Iran. The Association of Iranian Psychologists estimated that one quarter of the population suffers from depression. The American Cato Institute saw Iran in 2019 as the third most unhappy country in the world. Since then, the country has been broadsided by the coronavirus pandemic

Iran: knee-deep in trauma and depression

The country's mood was already weighed down by economic and social problems and military crises before the pandemic reached Iran. The regime's crisis management has done little to improve things. By Shabnam von Hein