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Mehdi Hasan

British Journalist

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I love my job... but I find myself awkwardly straddling the divide between British Islam and the British media. I get pretty exhausted of having to constantly endure a barrage of lazy stereotypes, inflammatory headlines, disparaging generalisations, and often inaccurate and baseless stories. Mehdi Hasan

Anti-Semitism isn't just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and commonplace. Mehdi Hasan

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I will call out someone if he's Islamophobic, and I will also call out anti-Semitism. It's immoral to call out one and not the other. Mehdi Hasan

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None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that, for the purposes of law and order, cannot be crossed; or for the purposes of taste and decency, should not be crossed. We differ only on where those lines should be drawn. Mehdi Hasan

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Let's start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed it was anything other than sheer insanity to yoke together diverse national economies such as Greece, Ireland, Germany and Finland under a single exchange rate and a single interest rate? Mehdi Hasan

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There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Mehdi Hasan

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The truth is that the dream of 'two states for two peoples,' born in the '90s, died in the noughties. The two-state solution, the popular and principled option for so long now, is neither practical nor possible. Mehdi Hasan

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Most Asians I know still don't trust the Tories on race - and they have good reason not to. Mehdi Hasan

Good Trust Tories Good Reason Know Most Still Race Asians Reason

There are two Tory parties: the trendy, socially liberal Notting Hill set which dominates at the national level, and the unreconstructed, reactionary, and often bigoted members of Conservative associations at the local level. The latter have yet to reconcile themselves to the reality of modern, multiracial Britain. Mehdi Hasan

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One of the hardiest myths in British public life is that there is a conspiracy of silence on immigration. Liberals and leftists, it is alleged, have bandied together to prevent debate or discussion of 'mass immigration' into the U.K., caused by Labour's 'open door' policies. Mehdi Hasan

My fundamental concern about the role of faith groups in providing social provision is democratic: how do we hold them to account? To whom are they responsible? How do we, the public, the recipients of welfare, punish them if they make mistakes or become corrupt? Mehdi Hasan

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I am a believing and practising Muslim - but I am also a social democrat. Mehdi Hasan

Muslim Democrat Also Practising Am Social Believing

I'm a fan of robust debate, and I'm not averse to engaging in the odd ad hominem attack myself. Mehdi Hasan

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