Kenan Malik’s anti-multiculturalism polemic has three serious analytical defects.
Evidence
Malik’s book offers one of the sharpest analyses of the rise of a kind of separatism spawned by the fetishization of cultural and religious identity by governments as a way to address social diversity. His account of special pleading and the rise of an “offense culture,” where cultural sensitivities are supposedly sacrosanct and to be protected from criticism or satire, is largely persuasive. However, for all its stridency and commitment, his book From Fatwa to Jihad has three main problems. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 158
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- DEFINE: Introduces the term ‘offense culture’ for the discourse Morey engages — a contested concept worth tracking.