There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Gamal Abdal Nasser, the nationalist leader of Egypt, was described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as an Egyptian Hitler. Then it… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
I think another crisis, which is being predicted now and which will be worse than what we saw in 2008, could bring the European… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad. — Tariq Ali Copy Share
One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands. — Tariq Ali Copy Share
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it. — Tariq Ali Copy Share
One could think of ways to defeat the censor. I could put up the answers on my Facebook page or website or Counterpunch. In… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses. — Tariq Ali Copy Share
“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
