Julie Bindel

When you say feminist, I think you mean the liberal sort that do the whole sex work is work, trans women are women, stripping is good for exercise.

Absolutely right. Absolutely right. They are the cultural relativists who will bend over backwards to defend the most appalling practices of Islam. They defend Sharia courts. They defend the full face veil. They are a disgrace and they have no right to call themselves feminists. It's appalling. And I will not be lumped in with those women. And I know that you're not doing that.

Absolutely right. Absolutely right. They are the cultural relativists who will bend over backwards to defend the most appalling practices of Islam. They defend Sharia courts. They defend the full face veil. They are a disgrace and they have no right to call themselves feminists. It's appalling. And I will not be lumped in with those women. And I know that you're not doing that.

Absolutely right. Absolutely right. They are the cultural relativists who will bend over backwards to defend the most appalling practices of Islam. They defend Sharia courts. They defend the full face veil. They are a disgrace and they have no right to call themselves feminists. It's appalling. And I will not be lumped in with those women. And I know that you're not doing that.

The feminists, of course, but the feminists that I have been in cahoots with for more than four decades campaign to end male violence towards women and girls. We are not cultural relativists. We work across every single issue that affects women, particularly those with cultures that perpetrate the worst violence. violence against women and girls. And I would name that as Islam.

The feminists, of course, but the feminists that I have been in cahoots with for more than four decades campaign to end male violence towards women and girls. We are not cultural relativists. We work across every single issue that affects women, particularly those with cultures that perpetrate the worst violence. violence against women and girls. And I would name that as Islam.

The feminists, of course, but the feminists that I have been in cahoots with for more than four decades campaign to end male violence towards women and girls. We are not cultural relativists. We work across every single issue that affects women, particularly those with cultures that perpetrate the worst violence. violence against women and girls. And I would name that as Islam.

And it's the religion that gets a free pass in my country and elsewhere because it's seen as somehow untouchable, that we're not supposed to challenge it.

And it's the religion that gets a free pass in my country and elsewhere because it's seen as somehow untouchable, that we're not supposed to challenge it.

And it's the religion that gets a free pass in my country and elsewhere because it's seen as somehow untouchable, that we're not supposed to challenge it.

We also have to look at moral cowardice and personal cowardice. So when I first published my investigation, into the grooming gangs in 2007 in the Sunday Times, the Guardian wouldn't run it.

We also have to look at moral cowardice and personal cowardice. So when I first published my investigation, into the grooming gangs in 2007 in the Sunday Times, the Guardian wouldn't run it.

We also have to look at moral cowardice and personal cowardice. So when I first published my investigation, into the grooming gangs in 2007 in the Sunday Times, the Guardian wouldn't run it.

I'd asked them repeatedly, and the editor said that we would be seen as racist, despite the fact that she knew I'm a feminist on the left and had been concerned about child sexual abuse committed by perpetrators of all stripes. But even so, there was this cowardice. And when I took it to the Sunday Times,

I'd asked them repeatedly, and the editor said that we would be seen as racist, despite the fact that she knew I'm a feminist on the left and had been concerned about child sexual abuse committed by perpetrators of all stripes. But even so, there was this cowardice. And when I took it to the Sunday Times,

I'd asked them repeatedly, and the editor said that we would be seen as racist, despite the fact that she knew I'm a feminist on the left and had been concerned about child sexual abuse committed by perpetrators of all stripes. But even so, there was this cowardice. And when I took it to the Sunday Times,

The first thing that happened that same day was I was put on the website, my name was added to Islamophobia Watch, a website that had been set up by two men, white men on the hard left, who decided any criticism of Islam or Islamists was Islamophobic. Well, I reject the word Islamophobic. So I didn't care that I was on that watch list.

The first thing that happened that same day was I was put on the website, my name was added to Islamophobia Watch, a website that had been set up by two men, white men on the hard left, who decided any criticism of Islam or Islamists was Islamophobic. Well, I reject the word Islamophobic. So I didn't care that I was on that watch list.

The first thing that happened that same day was I was put on the website, my name was added to Islamophobia Watch, a website that had been set up by two men, white men on the hard left, who decided any criticism of Islam or Islamists was Islamophobic. Well, I reject the word Islamophobic. So I didn't care that I was on that watch list.

In fact, I was quite proud of it because I thought, good, I've made a mark. There were lots of women, ex-Muslim women, women from different countries living or who escaped living under Islamic rule, who were saying, thank you for publishing this.