Simon Cottee is an academic who works as a senior lecturer in
criminology at the
University of Kent
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, and is a regular contributor to ''
The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
''. He previously worked at
Bangor University and the
University of the West Indies' Trinidad campus. He is the author of ''The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam'' (
Hurst Publishers
Hurst Publishers (C. Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd) is an independent non-fiction publisher based in the Bloomsbury area of London. Hurst specializes in books on global affairs and has lists in Islamic Studies, European History, War & Conflict, Afri ...
, 2015), which the publishers claim is "the first major study of
apostasy from Islam in the Western secular context". In a review published in ''
New Humanist
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History
The ''New Humanist'' has been in print for more than 13 ...
'', Alom Shaha wrote that the book "brings sensitivity and empathy to an intensely polarised debate".
Nick Cohen
Nicholas Cohen (born 1961) is a British journalist, author and political commentator. He was a columnist for '' The Observer'' and a blogger for '' The Spectator''. Following accusations of sexual harassment, he left The Observer in 2022 and be ...
, writing in ''
The Spectator
''The Spectator'' is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was first published in July 1828, making it the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world.
It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns ''The ...
'', argues that Cottee "shows how elements in the
left and
academia
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are happy to denounce Muslims who exercise their freedom to abandon their religion as 'native informers' who have gone over to the side of western imperialism". Cottee is also editor, with Thomas Cushman, of ''Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left'' (New York University Press, 2008). Cottee's published research also includes
journal
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*Bullet journal, a method of personal organization
*Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period
*Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...
articles on topics including the murder of
Theo van Gogh and the motivations of terrorists. He has argued that
gang culture
A gang is a group or society of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collective ...
offers a way of understanding the appeal of
ISIS . Cottee also argues that the group's propaganda videos have a "pornographic quality".
Books
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References
External links
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University of Kent profile page
Academics of the University of Kent
Living people
British criminologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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