I don't read her articles. I don't know much about her. I don't care for her views. I don't agree with her politics.
All I know about her is from what people say about her and on the occasions she appears on the radio and TV. She seems to be attacked by people on the Right, People on the Left, Muslims and even some atheist.
She obviously speaks from a perspective that you will never understand and other people identify with or at least find interesting or she would never get this much attention.
She doesn't have any power. There is an option, in most of her articles online, to reply and put forward your counter argument.
If you don't like what she says then why do you read her work? Is it because you enjoy her prose?
I've heard that she opposes Sharia law in the UK. I see you fail to mention this in your post. It clearly isn't a "fair and balanced" critic of her work/article/option.
There is clearly something more going on here. It's seems to me that the most vigorous attacks on her are by misogynist who don't like opinionated women who have to courage to open their mouths. Many of these misogynist are white men and many of them are Muslim men; well men in general.
As a Londoner who cares dearly about the Left Yasmin Alibhai Brown has always been around writing articles, making appearances on GLR and radio 4 plus her TV work.
When I was younger and more juvenile I loved her radical, anti authoritarian, anti American diatribes and being someone who has always struggled economically I always liked to hear the upper and middle classes get talked about as if they were evil oppressors who had got their status through cheating.
But now I have grown up, the world has changed and as Speaklow says, like Germaine Greer she has become more immature and out of date as time marches on.
Not to mention the fact that these haters of the Western bourgeois are fully paid up Oxbridge graduates and established journalists living in some of the most expensive real estate in the world. They are feminists who live in the most liberated societies in history but they attack the West as misogynistic and support the patriarchal cultures of Arabia and Africa.
They are misanthropic, self hating hypocrites that have spent all of their lives calling America and the West hypocritical for supporting tyrants then they condemn America and the West as tyrants in their own right when they topple tyrants.
They are dragging the Left through the dirt, this is why I talk about these people. We need a strong Left and idiots like Yasmin AB are discrediting the Left with their petty simplistic self righteous nonsense.
As an aside, lets not forget that Germaine Greer is a radical feminist who condemned Salman Rushdie for writing the Satanic Verses not the misogynist theocrat who condemned him to death.
These are the kind of people I'm talking about so please don't imply that my criticism of Yasmin Alabhai Brown is in anyway misogynistic. I resent that implication and I think it is sexist, you wouldn't shield a man from criticism just because he was a man.
You have implied that because I'm not an immigrant I don't understand her arguments now you imply that I'm in some way being a misogynist just because she is a woman. Please stop with the personal attacks, if you disagree with me state why and lets talk but don't try to discredit me.
I did mention that to her credit she was not one of the Islamist loving Leftists, I might not of mentioned the One Law campaign but I did give her the credit of opposing Islamism even if she makes excuses for it by blaming it on whitey and the West.
We owe so much to the radical feminist and anti racist 68er's who stormed the barricades. They won the cultural battles against racism and sexism but now they have transformed Western society instead of looking to liberate our brothers and sisters in Arabia, Iran, Africa and Asia they scream imperialism call for cultural relativism and like a stuck record attack the most anti racist and anti sexist societies in all time as if they where the biggest evils in history.
Their cultural victories have deranged them and left them with the terrible decision of being redundant or being on the side of the West which wants Liberal values to be universal. They refuse to do either so they attack the liberal democratic countries they live in. Nutters
The best thing we can do to fight the anti Westernism and moral relativism of these people is to point it out wherever it pops up.
Thats all I'm doing.
Topic: Has Yasmin Alibhai Brown gone completely mad?