Oh, the “Islamophobia”! Why, this is entirely gratuitous and “Islamophobic” of JK Rowling! Who ever heard of Muslims (or anyone else) wearing burqas to commit crimes? Why, it’s absolutely unheard-of! How dare she!
Reality:
NYC: Burqa-wearing man steals nearly $1 million in jewelry February 28, 2020
Sadiq Khan’s London: acid attack on 3 people by “people wearing burqas” June 25, 2019
France’s most-wanted fugitive evaded police by wearing a burqa October 4, 2018
Ramadan in Cameroon: Burqa-wearing Muslims murder at least twelve people in jihad-martyrdom suicide attacks July 13, 2015
Syrian army arrests jihadist dressed as a woman January 11, 2014
Afghanistan: Burqa-clad jihad/martyrdom bomber murders four French soldiers June 9, 2012
Accused 7/7 jihadist was caught fleeing in a burqa March 11, 2012
Taliban burqa-brigade attempted prison break in northwestern Pakistan June 26, 2011
Australian defendant claims: Not only am I not guilty, but that wasn’t me in the burqa November 18, 2010
The same day that burqa-clad suicide bombers murder 41 in Pakistan, Quebec Muslim women protest ban on face coverings April 19, 2010
Pakistan: Jihadists dressed in burqas murder 41 in double jihad/martyrdom bombing April 17, 2010
Jihad/martyrdom bombers in burqas kill 6 in Afghanistan July 21, 2009
U.S. troops kill burqa-clad Taliban jihadist November 29, 2008
Burqa – Clad Taliban Leader Caught as NATO Attacks March 7, 2007
But to imagine a similar scenario in a work of fiction? “Islamophobia”!
“Now JK Rowling is accused of Islamophobia over passage in 2014 book describing murder suspect ‘dressed in a burqa carrying halal takeaway,'” by Bridie Pearson-Jones, Mailonline, September 18, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
JK Rowling has been accused of Islamophobia after an extract of her 2014 crime novel The Silkworm was shared to Twitter.
The Edinburgh-based author, 55, who writes the Cormoran Strike books under the male pseudonym Robert Galbraith, wrote a passage in the second book of the series where detectives suggest that a ‘woman in a burqa’ fed a murder victim ‘halal takeaway’ before death.
The passage continued: ‘Can you think of another way of totally concealing your face and body that wouldn’t make people challenge you?’
It comes following accusations of transphobia against the Harry Potter writer after she slammed an article that used the term ‘people who menstruate’ instead of ‘women’.
The row worsened after her new book Troubled Blood was released on Tuesday, which tells the tale of a man who dresses as a woman to kill his victims – a trope in literature that’s been criticised by activists for perpetuating negative stereotypes about transgender people.
Now, she has come under fire again over her 2014 book, which has been accused of playing into both Islamophobic and transphobic prejudices, after British writer Laurie Charles posted an extract of the novel on Twitter.
The novel tells the tale of Cormoran Strike and his young assistant, Robin Ellacott who are trying to solve the murder of novelist Owen Quine who has written a poison pen book about almost everyone he knows.
A young woman wearing a hijab was watching them talk from an opposite seat. She had large, sweet, liquidbrown eyes.
‘Assuming somebody really did enter the house on the fourth, I’ve got to say a burqa’s a bloody good way of getting in and out without being recognised. Can you think of another way of totally concealing your face and body that wouldn’t make people challenge you?’…