Simon Cottee
Simon Cottee is an academic who works as a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent, and is a regular contributor to The Atlantic.[1] Cottee previously worked at Bangor University and the University of the West Indies' Trinidad campus.[2] He is the author of The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam (Hurst Publishers, 2015),[3][4] 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, Alom Shaha wrote that the book "brings sensitivity and empathy to an intensely polarised debate".[5] Nick Cohen, writing in The Spectator, argues that Cottee "shows how elements in the left and academia 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".[6] Cottee is also editor, with Thomas Cushman, of Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left (New York University Press, 2008).[7] Cottee's published research also includes journal articles on topics including the murder of Theo van Gogh and the motivations of terrorists.[8] He has argued that gang culture offers a way of understanding the appeal of ISIS .[9] Cottee also argues that the group's propaganda videos have a "pornographic quality".[10]
Books
- Cottee, Simon (2015). The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam. London: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. ISBN 978-1849044691.
- Cushman, Thomas; Cottee, Simon, eds. (2008). Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0814716878.
References
- ↑ "Simon Cottee". The Atlantic. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ "Dr Simon Cottee". University of Kent. 25 November 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ Anthony, Andrew (17 May 2015). "Losing their religion: the hidden crisis of faith among Britain's young Muslims". The Observer. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ Sherkat, Darren E. (22 June 2015). "Losing Their Religion: When Muslim Immigrants Leave Islam". Foreign Affairs.
- ↑ Shaha, Alom (19 May 2015). "What happens when Muslims leave Islam?". New Humanist. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ Cohen, Nick (28 February 2015). "How liberal Britain is betraying ex-Muslims". The Spectator. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ Freedland, Jonathan (17 July 2008). "Falling Hawks". New York Review of Books. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ "Academic papers". Simon Cottee. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ Ahmed, Abdul-Azim (20 February 2015). "Faithwashing ISIS". On Religion. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ↑ Cottee, Simon (12 September 2014). "The Pornography of Jihadism". The Atlantic. Retrieved 26 July 2015.