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Islamic blogs: brothers
- Abdusalaam Al-Hindi
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Islamic blogs: sisters
- A Nightingale
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Category Archives: Racism
Supreme Court bans JFS racial discrimination
Today, the British Supreme Court ruled that the policy of the Jews’ Free School (or JFS) of taking converts to Judaism only when they had been through one denomination’s conversion ritual rather than another was racially discriminatory. The problem was … Continue reading
The Spectator: where arrogant privilege meets bigotry
Rod Liddle has managed to outdo himself this past week, with two shockingly bigoted and ignorant articles on the Spectator’s website the same day. One of them is in support of the ban on minarets which was passed the Sunday … Continue reading
The Swiss minaret law and its implications
I’ve been asked to offer my opinion on the result of yesterday’s referendum on minarets in Switzerland, perhaps inevitably. I had expected such a law to be passed, contrary to the opinion polls which suggested that it wouldn’t, because a … Continue reading
No point debating racists
New Statesman - There’s nothing to debate about racism Mehdi Hasan, the NS’s senior politics editor, on why racism should be condemned and fought, not indulged and appeased: I recently sat in a radio studio debating with a caller who … Continue reading
Panorama: hate on the estate (updated)
There is a Panorama programme on tonight (BBC1, 8:30pm BST) about two Asian Muslim journalists who spent two months undercover in a Bristol housing estate, and encountered overt racist hostility, including both name-calling (Paki, Taliban etc) and physical assaults, when … Continue reading
He didn’t just call her a Paki
So, I’m sure everyone in the UK has heard that Anton du Beke (a BBC presenter and Strictly Come Dancing contestant) told his partner Laila Rouass, after she had applied a fake tan, “you look like a Paki”. This has … Continue reading
File on 4 investigates football racists
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - File on 4, 22/09/2009 File on 4 investigates the football hooligan racists who have been going around causing trouble in various British cities. They claim to be against “Muslim extremism”, but their chants … Continue reading
If it looks like a bloke …
Last week, a South African female runner who won the gold medal by a very clear margin (albeit because of a surge in the last minute or so) in the World Athletics Championships in Berlin had her gender questioned, as … Continue reading
Sterilisation: it wasn’t just the Nazis
Recently the papers and talk shows have been abuzz about a woman in her thirties who has had thirteen babies, all of whom have been taken away from her — most of them at birth — and put up for … Continue reading
Further evidence of Human Rights Commission incompetence
Moi Ali on the incompetence of the Equality and Human Rights Commission | Society | The Guardian This appeared on the front page of the Guardian Society supplement today, and was flagged up on the front page of the paper … Continue reading
Big Trev’s leadership pushes out equality staff
Perhaps to my discredit, I have not taken a great interest in the workings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the successor to several official equality commissions set up to monitor various anti-discrimination laws (one for sex, one for … Continue reading
White Privilege part 2: if you don’t like the heat …
In the recent discussion on White privilege and the Muslim community, it has been suggested that white converts to Islam who experience both discrimination and difficulty in integrating to their new community have the option of simply taking off their … Continue reading
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Tagged blog carnival, converts to islam, race, white privilege
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