Oh, the “Islamophobia”! Why, this is entirely gratuitous and “Islamophobic” of JK Rowling! Who ever heard of Muslims (or anyone else) wearing burqas to commit crimes? Why, it’s absolutely unheard-of! How dare she!
Reality:
NYC: Burqa-wearing man steals nearly $1 million in jewelry February 28, 2020
Sadiq Khan’s London: acid attack on 3 people by “people wearing burqas” June 25, 2019
France’s most-wanted fugitive evaded police by wearing a burqa October 4, 2018
Ramadan in Cameroon: Burqa-wearing Muslims murder at least twelve people in jihad-martyrdom suicide attacks July 13, 2015
Syrian army arrests jihadist dressed as a woman January 11, 2014
Afghanistan: Burqa-clad jihad/martyrdom bomber murders four French soldiers June 9, 2012
Accused 7/7 jihadist was caught fleeing in a burqa March 11, 2012
Taliban burqa-brigade attempted prison break in northwestern Pakistan June 26, 2011
Australian defendant claims: Not only am I not guilty, but that wasn’t me in the burqa November 18, 2010
The same day that burqa-clad suicide bombers murder 41 in Pakistan, Quebec Muslim women protest ban on face coverings April 19, 2010
Pakistan: Jihadists dressed in burqas murder 41 in double jihad/martyrdom bombing April 17, 2010
Jihad/martyrdom bombers in burqas kill 6 in Afghanistan July 21, 2009
U.S. troops kill burqa-clad Taliban jihadist November 29, 2008
Burqa – Clad Taliban Leader Caught as NATO Attacks March 7, 2007
But to imagine a similar scenario in a work of fiction? “Islamophobia”!
“Now JK Rowling is accused of Islamophobia over passage in 2014 book describing murder suspect ‘dressed in a burqa carrying halal takeaway,'” by Bridie Pearson-Jones, Mailonline, September 18, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
JK Rowling has been accused of Islamophobia after an extract of her 2014 crime novel The Silkworm was shared to Twitter.
The Edinburgh-based author, 55, who writes the Cormoran Strike books under the male pseudonym Robert Galbraith, wrote a passage in the second book of the series where detectives suggest that a ‘woman in a burqa’ fed a murder victim ‘halal takeaway’ before death.
The passage continued: ‘Can you think of another way of totally concealing your face and body that wouldn’t make people challenge you?’
It comes following accusations of transphobia against the Harry Potter writer after she slammed an article that used the term ‘people who menstruate’ instead of ‘women’.
The row worsened after her new book Troubled Blood was released on Tuesday, which tells the tale of a man who dresses as a woman to kill his victims – a trope in literature that’s been criticised by activists for perpetuating negative stereotypes about transgender people.
Now, she has come under fire again over her 2014 book, which has been accused of playing into both Islamophobic and transphobic prejudices, after British writer Laurie Charles posted an extract of the novel on Twitter.
The novel tells the tale of Cormoran Strike and his young assistant, Robin Ellacott who are trying to solve the murder of novelist Owen Quine who has written a poison pen book about almost everyone he knows.
A young woman wearing a hijab was watching them talk from an opposite seat. She had large, sweet, liquidbrown eyes.
‘Assuming somebody really did enter the house on the fourth, I’ve got to say a burqa’s a bloody good way of getting in and out without being recognised. Can you think of another way of totally concealing your face and body that wouldn’t make people challenge you?’…
gravenimage says
JK Rowling accused of ‘Islamophobia’ for book in which murder suspect ‘dressed in a burqa carrying halal takeaway’
………………..
Good grief. I’ve read that book–there are several suspects, and this does not even turn out to be the perp. Moreover, as is clear, the person wearing the Burqa need not even be Muslim.
*Of course* a Burqa would be a good disguise–just as Hallowe’en masks and motorcycle helmets and ski masks make good disguises. Note that bikers, skiers, and trick-or-treaters are not up in arms.
curious george says
gravenimage,
+1
As mentioned on previous posts, with the left “the issue is NEVER the issue, it the narrative that matters.
He who defines the terms, wins the argument.
Classic tactics, identify the target, isolate the target, attack the target and then destroy the target. The overarching theme here is, submission.
It’s a war of attrition, last man standing, so to speak.
This article doesn’t apply only to Christians, but to ALL freedom loving people.
Jim Caviezel tries to arm Christians for the coming battles in America
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/jim_caviezel_tries_to_arm_christians_for_the_coming_battles_in_america.html
mortimer says
Muslims INCLUDING THE TOP JIHADISTS have used the BURQA PLOY to escape capture!
Both OSAMA BIN LADEN and CALIPH AL-BAGHDADI dressed in a burqa so that they would be able to travel undetected by spy satellites and police.
Keith O says
Thankfully, a lot of criminals have also realized that the burqa is a great way to get away with robberies.
This means there is a legitimate reason for a ban on the burqa.
All we need then is a government with the balls to do it.
Beverly says
A phobia is an irrational fear of something. Having a fear of someone who would like to see you dead is not irrational.
mortimer says
Too true. Hopefully, many ‘kafirs’ will listen to your wisdom.
revereridesagain says
And we will need a great many of them to “wake up” instead of carrying on “woke” on this subject, as the Islamic cultural jihad continues in its slow but relentless ooze across Western civilization! Six words that haunt me as a possibility in the all to near future: United States Attorney General Keith Ellison. Does anyone doubt that Sleepy Joe or Reparations Kamala would hesitate?
mortimer says
Sleepy Joe was asleep when he read a hadith from Mohammed that, in coded language, commanded Muslims to impose Sharia law in the USA.
Eva says
What are these feculant, bile-ridden maggots going to accuse her of NEXT???
Boiling puppies? Kiddie porn? (I forgot, they’re okay with THAT).
Well, I support her, and I’m definitely going to buy that book now, along with her new one.
revereridesagain says
As a past “Harry Potter” fan at the level to have been designated official HP “expert” at the Borders where I was employed for the last two book releases I can testify that there have been plenty of moments when many of us — such as we Snape partisans — have wanted to go all jihad on Joanne over certain plot developments! However, the current rash of “woke”, virtue-signaling Social Justice Wawwiors, LGBTQRSTUVWhatever radicals and the like attacking her for nothing worse than common sense and reasonable plot details is yet another symptom of the rot in the societies from which they are emanating. Whole lot have been co-opted by He Who Should Bloody Well Be Named and have loosed the Dementors on the rest of us!
maria says
I support her too, She is a brave woman and her books are excellent. She is a real freedom loving person
JamesC. says
These days, people have become so ridiculously oversensitive to the tiniest insult, even when it is neither intended nor present, that it is fast becoming impossible to say anything without offending somebody somewhere.
On the other hand, there is simply no point in trying to pussyfoot around people’s feelings in order to avoid offending them. They are completely free of gratitude to others.
So one might as well get on with being the racist sexist ageist imperialist heightist ableist phallocentric patriarchist Fascistic body-Fascist colonialist DWEMist appropriationist so-and-so one is accused by these narcissists of being.
Liberalism is brain-rot, and the Muslamics are welcome to it.
Boycott Turkey says
I remember somebody I knew had there purse stolen by somebody dressed in a burka they told me the police told them the person who did it probably wasn’t a Muslim but just using it to hide there identity so it does happen It’s ridiculous it seems to me islamophobia = blasphemy law in disguise
DavidR says
In this mad rush to judgment we must not ignore the plight of Muslim men who identify as a Muslima or just like sporting a Burka. We only see these social pariahs when they commit crimes and are accused of being in disguise. This misidentification must end so we will be rioting close to the high end retail district later today.
Boycott Turkey says
I’m sure JK Rowling would agree with you not to ignore the plight of Muslim men who identify as muslimahs ?
Kepha says
They went after her for transphobia earlier–as if noting that no amount of wardrobe changes or cutting is going to turn XY into XX. I suppose the next author who has bad guys pull on clown masks to rob a bank with be accused of clown-phobia or whatever.
john smith says
It wasn’t that long ago, J K Rowling was urging the British government, to bring more and more refugees into the country. I personally have no time for such a person.
gravenimage says
The Harry Potter books are excellent, and actually a really good metaphor for the threat of Islam and other evils and those who refuse to face it, or who actually collaborate with it. Sadly, Rowling herself seems to have missed this.
john smith says
She is an excellent author there is no disputing that, her books are absolutely brilliant, but what she lacks is basic common sense. How can anyone in their right mind believe that flooding the country with muslims is a good idea. I would go as far as saying, she is low intellect, like every other radical leftist.
gravenimage says
+1
Phil Copson says
Are you sure about the excellence of JK Rowling, GI ? Take “She had large, sweet liquid-brown eyes.” for instance; is she talking about a cow ? That description is just lazy, cliched page-filling, and IMHO – belongs firmly in the category of phrases that you only ever see in books, and that nobody ever says in real life; a particular favourite of mine is; “For a large man, he was very quiet on his feet……” Who in real life would ever say such a thing ? (“No, sorry Inspector – I didn’t actually see his face, but I can tell you that the bloke who pinched my bicycle was a big man who was very quiet on his feet.” “Thank you, Sir – I’ll circulate that information immediately……” Just wouldn’t happen, would it ?
The choice of character’s names is excruciatingly bad – Cormoran Strike ? Robin Ellacott ? Owen Quine ? Who the devil has a name like “Cormoran Strike” ?
It sounds like the kind of bad detective fiction that Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry lampooned years ago in one of their sketches: “I know them, Inspector – blue hair, blonde eyes, small mole in his back garden….”
Try Dick Francis instead; those books have a real flow about them, so that you suddenly find that you’ve accidentally stayed-up reading until 2.00am: “Nerve” / “Dead Cert” / and “Flying Finish” are good ones to kick off with, and the good news is that there are stacks of them. (I’d avoid the last few, written with his son though – they seem to be twice as long and half as good as the classic thrillers written by Dick Francis together with his wife, Mary, in the ’60s and ’70s.
And since good writing is good writing, no matter what age group it was written for – try Richmal Compton’s “William” books written from the ’20s to the ’60s: Far too good for children – and Thomas Henry’s illustrations of William Brown and his gang “The Outlaws”, his family – elder brother Robert falling desperately in love with every girl he meets – and the cast of village characters from the lisping six-year old tyrant Violet Elizabeth Bott – (“I’ll thcream an’ thcream till I’m thick, if you don’t let me play with you!”) – his arch-enemy the plump mummy’s-boy Hubert Lane, General Moult, village policemen, angry farmers, eccentric local artists etc, are wonderful and a real window into the past. Just Google the book-jacket designs, and you’ll be hooked.
gravenimage says
Phil, I am aware of and have read many of the authors and books that you recommend, including those by Dick Francis–thank you. That does not mean my disliking other authors such as JK Rowling. I have pretty wide reading tastes.
What Rowling generally excels at, to my mind, are characters–her plots are sometimes rather thin, and she is not a mystery or detective writer per se. And–as you note, she is not really known for her strong prose. For me, her main characters are strong enough that I am willing to overlook the books’ weaker points. Others may of course disagree.
The Harry Potter books had both strong characters–even most of the secondary characters–and a compelling plot. Still, her prose was perhaps the weakest aspect of her work even there.
But nothing could save her first book for adults, The Casual Vacancy–which I felt was lacking in almost everything that makes a story worth reading, including characters you could care about.
But the main point here, of course, is not personal taste–but whether Muslims have the right to censor authors in the free world.
I say they *do not*. Even if I thought little of Rowlings’s work, I would support her here.
gravenimage says
By the way, I am not a big personal fan of Salman Rushdie’s fiction–but I firmly stand with him against the violent censorship of Islam.
JamesC. says
The blindness of Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge to the many signs of the return of Voldemort is a very common blindness today.
How many crimes must the orc-hosts of Moslemism commit, before the politicians, most Churchmen, and other blithering idiots wake up ?
gravenimage says
Yes–the Harry Potter books actually contain great metaphors for our taking a stand against the threat of Islam.
Hoi Polloi says
I read the HP books, Graven, without thinking about this. I agree and thank you for pointing this out. It’s a shame she defends Islam and the blind-eyed treatment of it by her own government. She should watch the videos I have seen where UK police defend and incite egregious illegal behavior from Muslims. Maybe she herself is as classist as so many Brits are accused of being. I personally believe that is much of their motivation. They seem unable to see their own countrymen as human and believe they will easily rise to the top in an Islamic system, not caring what that attitude brings to the lowah clahsses.
tim gallagher says
I’m sure that there have been many crimes committed by people who use burqas to hide their identity, just as others wear balaclavas, so what Rowling is suggesting makes sense. It is a reasonable plot device. There is such extraordinary nonsense going on these days with these continually outraged clowns. Soon people won’t be able to do anything creative without these boring clowns trying to destroy them. A transgender person could be a criminal, just as burqa wearer could be a criminal. It doesn’t mean that the author is saying all transgender types are criminals. All this crap is going to completely destroy creativity. Anyway, although I think she is a leftie and not my cup of tea, Rowling does seem to have guts and seems to be giving them the finger. I’m a heterosexual white male. I couldn’t care less that there’s probably been a million white heterosexual males who have been “defamed” by being the villains in works of fiction over the centuries. These days, if someone writes about a Muslim crim or transgender crim, there seems to be hell to pay. I agree with Kepha’s comment up above, watch out for the outraged clowns if some creative writer comes up with a criminal dressed as a clown. This is insanity. All these outraged groups need to get a life and leave creative writers alone to dream up the ideas for their books.
Peter WF says
It is so easy to offend someone that I suspect I have offended someone by typing this.
gravenimage says
It is particularly easy to offend those who are taught they are inherently superior, and who use supposed offense as a weapon.
battle4urhome says
If anyone can say they are superior, then I would say that you can’t be offended by anything because you are superior right? All these people with superior motives are just having a mental shortage of common sense.
Phil Copson says
Is that comment aimed at me ???
Westman says
William Shakespeare – “Much ado about ‘noting'(gossip)”
Once, being a part of the newspaper industry, I remember when stories containing accusations had to be checked and verified if not avoided, altogether. Then came the internet and every person who could muster a following became a publisher. The major newspapers, to stay in business, lowered their standards to compete for eyeballs and ears, becoming the equivalent of The National Inquirer. Actually, worse than the Inquirer, choosing political sides and pushing agendas. The recent law suits, e.g., Nick Sandmann, make that very clear.
Now that everyone is a publisher, everything has its pro and negative commenters. Perhaps the worst are celebrities who believe they have some special right or gift of wisdom, bereft of any real experience. That the media seeks their ideas only points to how desperate the media is to fill time, newsholes, and get the Benjamins.
Yes, men have robbed banks and stores in the US and other nations wearing Muslim garb. That’s verified reality. Rowling has far more integrity than the media when using that situation in her writing. If she had written about someone wearing a Priest’s suit, or, If she had written about a Priest or a Scout leader abusing boys would there be the same reaction?
Islam is not a protected class nor are its trappings. That it is so insecure as to be unable to tolerate even a hint of bad light, criticism, or references to its clothing, points to how, without the threat of, or, using actual violence, it is resting on a questionable foundation.
Everything is questioned in the West so we should expect that Islam will weaken further as its adherents, in the West, abandon it.
gravenimage says
I hope more Muslims do abandon their vicious creed–but many do not.
Check Burry says
Yes, roughly a raindropsworth in the Amazon
James Lincoln says
Westman says,
“The major newspapers, to stay in business, lowered their standards to compete for eyeballs and ears, becoming the equivalent of The National Inquirer. Actually, worse than the Inquirer, choosing political sides and pushing agendas.”
Thank you for that analysis, I never thought of it quite that way.
So, the Internet actually drove this process…
Hoi Polloi says
Good reason to read her new book. I am tired of every creative endeavor now reading and feeling forced. There is a clear, inescapable, top-down directive to write and to develop characters in a manner that pleases the individuals with the purse strings or the will to abuse our legal system. I no longer experience the pleasure of the writer’s creative flow. Doubtless, decking interest only leads those behind the scenes to self-righteously conference regarding the illiterate and phobia-ridden public rather than to self-examine.
gravenimage says
Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series is quite good. They are written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, because she wanted to see if she could succeed without the reader knowing she was the author of the wildly successful Harry Potter books–she also wanted to be able to tackle more adult subject matter.
Probably the weakest aspect of these books are the cases themselves (and I find that to be particularly true in this book, the second).
But this almost doesn’t matter–the hero, a semi-disabled veteran private eye and his assistant Robin Ellacott are wonderful, compelling characters. The fifth book has just come out this month. I’ll be reading it shortly and am much looking forward to it.
Hoi Polloi says
I agree with you. I am registered for this Strike book, so I can continue enjoying this series. I personally think she is being targeted not only due to her gender stance, because she wrote Strike as a vet of the war that had the UK’s friendliest demographic beheading a returning vet on their streets with minimal reaction from the government. The government only seemed interested in targeting anyone who publicly acknowledged it.
I was struck the last two summers traveling in the UK by how utterly defeated and hopeless the populace seemed in some of the northern towns that were and still are the center of the decades of rape, trafficking, pedophilia, kidnapping, and arson gangs operating with the approval and aid of the government. Saddens me still.
Hoi Polloi says
* Doubtless, decking interest —— this I had intended as “Doubtless, declining interest” but did not catch the alteration before posting. Sorry.
gravenimage says
Very grim, Hoi Polloi. My mother was English, and I still have relatives there. What is happening there is an utter tragedy.
Eleanor says
Poor old JK – if she wasn’t a full-blown Leftie, I’d almost feel sorry for her. Now she might have some idea of what Katie Hopkins has endured over recent years.
tim gallagher says
Eleanor, I admire Katie Hopkins. She appears on a current affairs TV program here in Australia, called “Outsiders”, which I enjoy, every couple of months and she seems absolutely fearless. She just laughs at the people who try to shut her down and try to prevent her getting her views out there. I think she was talking about facebook or some such mob banning her and she just laughed and, pretty much, said, do your worst, you’re a joke. I agree with most of the views that I hear her expressing and I find her a very courageous type of person. She gets along extremely well with the three hosts of “Outsiders” (Rowan Dean, Rita Panahi and James Morrow) who also are ferocious fighters against the PC brigade.
James Lincoln says
tim,
I too, greatly admire Katie Hopkins – and I have watched a lot of her videos.
If she were not already a citizen of the UK , she would be banned from entry for fear of causing a “breach of the peace”.
Same with Tommy Robinson – the UK can’t “handle” the truth about islam…
Hoi Polloi says
Agree with all of you.
Check Burry says
Agreed in spades.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, James. I had heard about her occasionally, but I hadn’t watched any of her videos, but then I really enjoyed the times when she was on “Outsiders”. It seems that she has been on that show for quite a long time, and I only began to watch the show more recently. The three presenters and Katie seem like old friends, who get along extremely well and are fighting the same battles. To me, I enjoy seeing how much fun and laughter Katie Hopkins seems to be having while fighting against her enemies. The three presenters of “Outsiders” also have a lot of fun and humour while doing their show. I think that must annoy the hell out of her enemies to see her laughing at their efforts to get her shut down. Also, from what I hear her say, she doesn’t have a good word to say about islam, so I share her opinions on that subject. You are right, the UK authorities seem pathetic on Islam.
JamesC. says
Pat Condell has a lot of videos about Islam. He is ferocious, and very funny, but makes some excellent points at the same time.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the information about Pat Condell, JamesC. I will check him out.
Check Burry says
Plus she was a staunch remainer, still is Im sure, so she loses more points for me, never read her books, or seen her films.
Rbla says
Darth Vader is an example of a spiritual master who can’t overcome his egoism and falls under the power of the dark side of the Force. If they ever figure out that this was a perfect description of Muhammad all Star Wars movies will be permanently banned.
eduardo odraude says
The Islamic sources describe how “Gabriel” was violent in getting Muhammad to start reciting what would become the Qur’an. When Muhammad failed to obey “Gabriel’s” command to start reciting the first Qur’an verse to be revealed, “Gabriel” grabbed Muhammad around the throat so that he could hardly breathe. Then released Muhammad and again commanded him to “Read!!” This use of force, if I recall correctly, was repeated a second time, until the third time Muhammad finally started reciting the revelation. So “Gabriel” forced Muhammad to start reciting the first verse. The use of compulsion in that way I think would be more characteristic of a demon, and indeed, the Islamic sources report that Muhammad at first wondered if he was demon-possessed. I also wonder if the sense of compulsion is a way of depicting what perhaps were epileptic fits. Some Islamic descriptions of Muhammad’s behavior prior to reciting new “revelations” are reminiscent of epileptic convulsions, at least I seem to recall Ali Sina saying something to that effect.
Michael Copeland says
In the biography the being who terrified and forced Mohammed to “Read!!” is not named. It is only later in his life that Mohammed is said to encounter Gabriel.
gravenimage says
Yes–very ugly stuff.
JamesC. says
Darth Vader is very destructive, but he is not a sex maniac, unlike Mo. And he is manipulated into falling into the dark side. His fall was his decision, but not entirely his fault. Unlike Mo, he comes back to the light.
eduardo odraude says
The burka as a creation of forces of darkness is almost too obvious. Well, if evil really wants to be itself, I guess there are advantages to hiding in plain sight. The burka is the very picture of shrouding someone in darkness. Burkas remind me of the ringwraiths in Lord of the Rings. Also of the Star Wars storm troopers with their heads always entirely covered, so that they are entirely de-individualized. Many Muslims are innocent and ignorant of Islam’s totalitarian core and Muhammad’s monstrous system. But the leadership of Islam is not innocent.
eduardo odraude says
I would not be at all surprised if JK Rowling is something of an Islamophobe, meaning she understands that Islam (not all Muslims) is a totalitarian menace, Islamic leadership has evil intentions, and Muhammad was a monster.
gravenimage says
I’m afraid she is in a fair amount of denial over the threat of Islam, Eduardo:
Islam doesn’t kill people.
People kill people.
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/914961914370850817?lang=en
Antiislamicman says
Thank god there is no such thing as islamophobia
Jayell says
So basing a plot on reality here is ‘islamophobia’, is it? But you could then quite reasonably say that this so-called ‘islamophobia’ business is all quite logically based on the reality of islam anyway, as the news reports and the ‘Holy Books’ say! In which case it’s pretty obvious that it’s all a transparently crude smokescreen, exactly the sort of self-righteous disinformation that has been used by totalitarian regimes and other shady operations to cover their tracks since time immemorial. The only thing is, other dubious organisations usually have the intelligence to keep their mouths shut once the cat’s out of the bag otherwise it all rebounds back on them and makes them look even worse; yet here we have a whole population of proverbial ‘cats’ that’s already been been on the loose for ages and STILL they try it on! Unbelievable! Absolutely unbelievable!!
shortfattexan says
It’s terrible of me, I know, but I just can’t help but feel a bit of fiendish delight when the left start eating their own (which actually happens quite a lot these days).
While I agree that this “Islamophobia” accusation, like almost all other such accusations, is nothing but a malicious, self-serving lie, at the same time I find it very difficult, if not impossible, feel any sympathy for J.K. Rowling, whose “Wokeness” credentials have until now been unassailable.
Giacomo Latta says
At his very moment, in order to demonstrate just how wrong J. K. Rowling is, imams and muftis everywhere are imploring their simpletons to attack non-muslims while making sure that they leave their burqas at home.
Jedothek says
This is another example of how the PC culture no longer glances at reality. If they win, western culture will be in a state of full time permanent psychosis.
Norman Gardner says
Another much ado about nothing, so Rowland wrote about a burka. Islamists all over the world are committing atrocities and these examples of human trash never say anything negative about them, perhaps it is because they are cheering the atrocities. No wonder there is Islamophobia, no sane individual wants these people near them.