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Shakira Hussein

Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher, focusing on issues of Islam, gender and South Asia. She is currently completing her phD on encounters between Muslim and Western women at the Australian National University.

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'They do not vilify our ideas, they vilify us' : a reply to Salman Rushdie

The right to blasphemy is not the right to religious hate. Shakira Hussein draws on her own multi-religious background to challenge her childhood hero, Salman Rushdie.