Criticism
Johann Hari has criticised the use of the term Islamophobia by Islamophobia Watch to attack him and others. He writes: "If Muslim women and Muslim gays are going to have any kind of decent life, the liberals need to receive solidarity and support – but slap-dash charges of Islamophobia intimidate people who could offer it" ... "While Islamophobia Watch talk about defending Muslims, they end up defending the nastiest and most right-wing part of the Muslim community – the ones who are oppressing and killing the rest."
Martin Bright, former political editor of the New Statesman and author of the Policy Exchange pamphlet When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries: The British State's Flirtation with Radical Islamism, has drawn a parallel between Islamophobia Watch and the extreme right. Responding to an article by holocaust denier Lady Michèle Renouf that denounced him as part of a "Zionist conspiracy", Bright commented that Renouf's piece was "almost indistinguishable from the attacks on me from supporters of Ken Livingstone and the likes of Islamophobia Watch".
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