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Mehdi Hasan

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Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds. Mehdi Hasan

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You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it. Mehdi Hasan

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As a supporter of secularism, I am willing to accept same-sex weddings in a state-sanctioned register office, on grounds of equity. As a believer in Islam, however, I insist that no mosque be forced to hold one against its wishes. Mehdi Hasan

It isn't only Republicans, it seems, who traffic in alternative facts. Since Donald Trump's shock election victory, leading Democrats have worked hard to convince themselves, and the rest of us, that his triumph had less to do with racism and much more to do with economic anxiety - despite almost all of the available evidence suggesting otherwise. Mehdi Hasan

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In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have disproportionately used it to engage in cynical and anti-democratic obstructionism whenever they find themselves in the minority. Mehdi Hasan

Minority Practice Party Cynical Find Senate Whenever Republicans Themselves Engage Used Theory Who Filibuster Helps Disproportionately

The state exists to serve and protect every citizen, regardless of colour, creed, race or religion - and the welfare state should exist to and protect the populace in the same non-discriminatory and universal manner. Mehdi Hasan

Religion Welfare Citizen Every State Colour Protect Welfare State Exist Exists Same Regardless Race Manner Should Populace Serve Universal Creed

It is man - whether believer or non-believer - who is responsible for global unrest. And it is human beings who have to learn to co-exist in the 21st century, outside of divisive social constructs, religious or otherwise. Mehdi Hasan

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To speak of the Muslim world is not to endorse a totalitarian project, nor to bolster an Islamist narrative, nor to suggest that variety, plurality, and diversity are lacking in what Muslims think, believe, speak, and do as Muslims. Mehdi Hasan

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The reality is that far-right extremism is no longer dominated by loners. Mehdi Hasan

Reality Extremism Longer Dominated

How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs - 635,000 tons - and napalm - 32,557 tons - than during the entire Pacific campaign against the Japanese during World War II? Mehdi Hasan

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Perhaps the biggest boost to the LePenization of French politics came from Nicolas Sarkozy. As president of France between 2007 and 2012, he actively courted FN voters and helped dismantle the 'Republican pact,' under which the two main parties had pledged to work together to defeat the FN at a national and local level. Mehdi Hasan

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The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure. Mehdi Hasan

Failure Political Strategy Defeat Pandering Has-Been Moral Pens Stealing Voters French Policies Been Trying Rhetoric Elites

To be clear, no one is saying there weren't any legitimate economic grievances in Trumpland, nor is anyone claiming that the economy played no role whatsoever. The point, however, is that it wasn't the major motivating factor for most Trump voters - or, at least, that's what we learn when we bother to study those voters. Race trumped economics. Mehdi Hasan

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Always remember: You have to identify the disease before you can begin work on a cure. In the case of support for Donald Trump, the results are in: It isn't the economy. It's the racism, stupid. Mehdi Hasan

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The terrorists may want to try and legitimize their violence by cynically appealing to Islamic motifs or doctrines, but there is no reason the rest of us should help them do it. Mehdi Hasan

Try Rest No Reason Doctrines Islamic Terrorists May Want Them Us Should Help Reason Cynically Appealing Violence

The inconvenient truth that our lazy media elites do so much to ignore is that Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and Warren are much closer in their views to the vast majority of ordinary Americans than the Bloombergs or the Bidens. They are the true centrists, the real moderates; they represent the actual political middle. Mehdi Hasan

Truth Political Our Vast Vast Majority Lazy True Majority Real Than American Closer Moderates Represent Middle Ordinary Much Ignore Warren Views Media Actual Elites Inconvenient

I was 13 years old when I first heard of the Sultan of Brunei. The absolute ruler of a tiny, oil-rich kingdom in Southeast Asia, Hassanal Bolkiah was the subject of a much-discussed TV documentary by the British filmmaker Alan Whicker in 1992. As a young teenager, sitting in front of the television, I was in awe of this Muslim king. Mehdi Hasan

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We have to find a way to try and reconcile our beliefs - and Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, has traditionally seen homosexuality as a sin - with the reality of life in modern, pluralistic, secular societies in which gay people cannot be wished away or banished from sight. Mehdi Hasan

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If you're gay, that doesn't mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don't want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination. Mehdi Hasan

Why shouldn't 16-year-olds who pay taxes and drive not be allowed to vote? Mehdi Hasan

Vote Drive Pay Allowed Taxes Who Why

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