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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (born Yasmin Damji on 10 December 1949) is an Uganda-born journalist, based in London; she hyphenated her surname only after her second marriage in 1990.

Career

A victim of Idi Amin's expulsion of Ugandan Asians in 1972, Alibhai-Brown was educated at Linacre College, Oxford University completing her MPhil in literature in 1975. At first a journalist on the New Statesman magazine in the early 1980s, she now contributes a column to each Monday's Independent. She has also contributed to the New York Times, Newsweek and The Guardian.
Alibhai-Brown has also been a fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a think tank associated with New Labour, though she ended her connection with the Labour Party over the war in Iraq among other issues, and endorsed the Liberal Democrats in the 2005 general election. She is a Fellow of the British-American Project, though she's distanced herself from the organisation in recent years. Alibhai-Brown is also an occasional panelist on Matthew Wright's The Wright Stuff. Often giving controversial views during discussions. Her most recent appearance being in March 2008.
She was awarded a MBE in 2000, though she subsequently returned it at the end of 2003, admitting she only accepted her award so her mother wouldn't face deportation. She added her mother was still "distraught" she'd handed the award back. She was inspired by Benjamin Zephaniah's decision to reject his proposed honour.

Criticism

When the Muslim Council of Britain called for the Holocaust Memorial Day to be replaced with the Genocide Memorial Day, she criticized the Council's refusal to "mourn victims of one of the deadliest mass exterminations in human history" (External Link

). The Council responded by accusing her of misrepresenting their position stating that it "fully accepts and recognizes the monstrous horror and cruelty that underpinned the Nazi holocaust."
However she's fiercely defensive of Muslims who are killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Palestinian region, describing the actions of Western governments there as "monstrous war crimes." This is one of the reasons she sent her MBE back as an act of protest.
A small number of conservative critics have accused Alibhai-Brown of political correctness. Michael Wharton once stated that "at 3.6 degrees on the Alibhai-Brown scale, it sets off a shrill scream that won't stop until you've pulled yourself together with a well-chosen anti-racist slogan." Alibhai-Brown argues that she's merely pointing out racism, and that, far from being politically correct, she authored one of the first major books, After Multiculturalism, to criticize the concept.

Martin Amis

Alibhai-Brown got drawn into the row between Martin Amis and Terry Eagleton regarding the treatment of British Muslims in October 2007. Following Eagleton's attack on Amis' purported Islamophobia, she accused him of being "with the beasts" in a comment piece in The Independent. Amis responded the next day with a lengthy, highly critical 'open letter' to her which was widely reported in the British press.

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