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Is the Indo systemically anti-Muslim? via Skin Flicks April 25th, 2008 at 14:40

Certainly, some Muslims seem to think so.As far as I'm aware, there have been at least two complaints to the Press Council and Ombudsman from Irish based Muslims about articles that appeared in the Irish Independent.One was a somewhat inflammatory piece by commentator Kevin Myers, whose flights of fancy I've previously examined here.The other complaint apparently relates to Ian O'Doherty (airbrushed above), whose otherwise interesting and light-hearted column I-Spy is regularly marred by his blinkered defence of all things Neo-Con or Israeli, and his blanket demonising of Islam.After yet another crack about Shariah law in Ireland from Ian, a large number of Irish Muslims finally had enough and collectively wrote a letter to the editor, which was published in today's edition.What I found...