Popbitch email newsletter 20th October 2006

 

Muslims are not the new jews         

Knight and Burchill's bitch-fight

   India Knight wrote in her last Sunday Times column that "Muslims are the new Jews", where
    she attacked negative attitudes towards the veil.  Julie Burchill wrote in reply to the paper's
    letters page:
   
    Dear India Knight, I dare you to walk into any
    mosque... and spread your tidings that "Muslims
    are the new Jews". You'll be lucky if you get out
    alive. PS I see that your new book is a compilation
    of dirty bits from novels. I'd love to know how
    this fits in with your new found love of
    feminine modesty and discretion.

    The subsequent email exchange:

    To Julie Burchill From India Knight.
    Oh for fuck's sake. I don't have a "newfound
    love of modesty and discretion" - I just don't
    despise people on the basis of what they wear.

    To: India Knight From Julie Burchill
    What, not even the working class slags in cropped
    tops you're forever slagging off you hypocritical
    snob?

    To: Julie Burchill from India Knight
    I do NOT slag off working class people in crop
    tops you fucking loon. Where? When? Why would I
    slag them off? I am many things but I am not a
    snob. God, you're driving me mad. Go Away.

    To: India Knight From Julie Burchill
    I wrote to the letters page, not YOU, you
    stalking cretin. Why don't you fuck off and
    turn yet another of your husbands gay?