I’ve lost count of the number of websites that try to ‘out’ every Muslim in public life as an extremist or Islamist of some shape or form. Mehdi Hasan Read Quote
When you demonize Muslims as a community, as an entire group of people based on the crimes or actions of a tiny minority within that community, you have very worrying, real world effects. Mehdi Hasan Read Quote
Stop treating Muslims as if they’re some kind of foreign, alien entity rather than part of the fabric of Canadian society or American society or British society. Mehdi Hasan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate – especially (especially!) within Muslim communities. Mehdi Hasan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Deficit, deficit, deficit. The political and media elites are obsessed with the D-word. Mehdi Hasan Read Quote
