There's a general ignorance about how Muslims live and what Muslims believe. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
I am a believing and practising Muslim - but I am also a social democrat. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Are we willing and able to stand up to Islamophobia on days when there are not brutal terrorist attacks on Muslims in… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
I've lost count of the number of websites that try to 'out' every Muslim in public life as an extremist or Islamist… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Have you ever been called an Islamist? How about a jihadist or a terrorist? Extremist, maybe? Welcome to my world. It's pretty… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
The rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria has been a disaster for the public image of Islam - and a boon… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
There are no authentic reports in any of the Muslim books of history of the Prophet Muhammad punishing anyone for same-sex acts. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
When you demonize Muslims as a community, as an entire group of people based on the crimes or actions of a tiny… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Stop treating Muslims as if they're some kind of foreign, alien entity rather than part of the fabric of Canadian society or… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
To speak of the Muslim world is not to endorse a totalitarian project, nor to bolster an Islamist narrative, nor to suggest… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
The moment has come, as we enter the teenies, to forget the idea of a Palestinian state existing side by side with… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Shortly after he became the first Muslim to attend cabinet, I urged Sadiq Khan to be prepared. The Islamophobes, the new McCarthyites,… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
The common stereotype of the Middle Eastern, Muslim-born terrorist is not just lazy and inaccurate but easy fodder for the anti-immigrant, anti-Islam… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
The terrorists may want to try and legitimize their violence by cynically appealing to Islamic motifs or doctrines, but there is no… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
I'm the first person to say don't equate between terrorism and Islam. But at the same time, I'm not going to pretend… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism isn't just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and commonplace. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Shortly after he became the first Muslim to attend cabinet, I urged Sadiq Khan to be prepared. The Islamophobes, the new McCarthyites, would at… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have disproportionately used… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
We have to find a way to try and reconcile our beliefs - and Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, has traditionally seen homosexuality as… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Even as evidence mounts that immigration is bolstering the British economy, the political consensus seems to be that bashing immigration boosts electoral fortunes. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
I think that the anti-Semitic problem in the British Muslim community is worse than among the community at large. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
My fundamental concern about the role of faith groups in providing social provision is democratic: how do we hold them to account? To whom… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that, for the… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism isn't just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and commonplace. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
There's a general ignorance about how Muslims live and what Muslims believe. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
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… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
