NY Times Portrays Islam More Negatively Than Cancer, Major Study Finds | Alternet
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“Sexual Misery and Islam,” published February 12 and responding to the alleged New Year’s Eve attacks on women in Germany, is a clear example. The author, Kamel Daoud , writes, “In some of Allah’s lands, the war on women and on couples has the air of an inquisition,” adding that, “People in the West are discovering, with anxiety and fear, that sex in the Muslim world is sick, and that the disease is spreading to their own lands.”
A collective response from scholars to the article, published in Jadaliyya, notes that “the author recycles the most well-worn orientalist clichés, from Islam as a religion of death to the psychology of the Arab crowds. Far from offering a profound and detached approach to the question— something that is required given the gravity of the current situation—Daoud’s article only feeds the Islamophobic fantasies of a growing proportion of the European (and American) public and under the comfortable pretext of refusing to engage in a naive optimism.”