Let’s be clear: There is no doubt that the citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea both fear and loathe the United States. Paranoia, resentment, and a crude anti-Americanism have been nurtured inside the Hermit Kingdom for decades. Mehdi Hasan Read Quote
Lampooning racism by reproducing brazenly racist imagery is a pretty dubious satirical tactic. Mehdi Hasan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The reality is that religion, across the board, and in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace – and it is childish and naive, not to mention utopian, to believe otherwise. Mehdi Hasan Read Quote
Islam, for example, like so many other faiths, stresses the importance of mutual solidarity with our fellow man. Mehdi Hasan Read Quote
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 Read Quote