Julie Burchill fires new publisher identified as a white nationalist Sian Cain
Julie Burchill has dropped the new publisher for her book Welcome to the Woke Trials after the publisher was identified as a supporter of the UK white nationalist group Patriotic Alternative .
Tabatha Stirling is the sole director of Stirling Publishing, an independent based in Scotland. On Monday, she announced that she had acquired Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics, months after it was dropped by publisher Little, Brown over Burchill’s comments about Islam.
After the announcement, a three-minute audio clip uploaded on YouTube in September began to circulate online. Taken from a Scottish-based Patriotic Alternative group on the messaging app Telegram, the clip sees a woman with the username “Miss Brittania” tearfully apologise for several tweets she had written that had caused other supporters to question her identity. Three people who have me
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Feminist writer Julie Burchill today apologised unreservedly and unconditionally to a Muslim journalist after she told her that her worship of the Prophet Muhammad was the worship of a paedophile .
Ms Burchill also revealed in a statement published on Twitter that she had agreed to pay Novara Media reporter Ash Sarkar substantial damages for the distress caused by the Islamophobia row last December.
The spat began when Ms Burchill defended journalist Rod Liddle after Ms Sarkar criticised a 2012 article in the Spectator where Mr Liddle said he did not become a teacher because he would want to sleep with pupils.
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You may have thought the public discourse couldn’t get any more absurd. Think again. Apparently oblivious to the titanic dimensions of the irony, the publisher Little, Brown just canceled a new book,
Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics by British journalist Julie Burchill because of an “Islamophobic” twitter exchange Burchill had with Muslim writer Ash Sarkar. So you see, it’s fine to stand up for freedom of speech, but some lines must not be crossed. And what was Burchill’s crime? Did she use racial slurs? Did she call for genocide or violence against innocent Muslims? No, apparently all she did was note the readily demonstrable fact that according to Islamic tradition, Muhammad married a child. But telling the truth is a dangerous enterprise these days.