Samar Habib is (was) a professor at the University of Western Sydney and editor of
Nebula, an anti-imperialist academic journal where you would expect intellectuals in opposition to write in. And how do you expect imperial institutions to behave against intellectuals opposing the mainstream? Yes, they get pressured, harrassed... and surreptitiously ousted from their positions. Ghazzawiyya bows to the courageous Samar Habib (
chapeau bas!), not to mention being an admirer of her work. Read her elegantly edited
Islam and Homosexuality.