Switzerland: Islamophobia or legitimate defense

Islam in Europe
April 7, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/260/switzerland-islamophobia-or-legitimate-defense

Excerpt:

 Swiss newspaper Le Matin reports of a new book titled "Islamophobia or legitimate defense: Equality of the Sexes and Democracy - the Swiss face Islamic Fundamentalism".  

Today, criticizing certain practices of Islam immediately passes for Islamophobia, but a democratic and feminist Swiss is now fighting this state of affairs.  She's publishing a book denouncing the  the tactics of fundamentalist Muslims who want to put to sleep this critical ability of democracies, including the Swiss.

Mireille Valette, 58, from Geneva and France, former journalist, now working at the Geneva Institute, is a small, almost frail woman, not one to give the impression of a warmonger.  However, she just wrote a book which promises a big debate and a flood of controversy.  

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