How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of… — Mehdi Hasan Centrist Copy Share Image
From a moral point of view, it is wrong... to smear or stereotype minority communities, to pretend or give credence to the… — Mehdi Hasan Community Copy Share Image
Let's start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed… — Mehdi Hasan Economics 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 Come 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 Islam Copy Share Image
It is man - whether believer or non-believer - who is responsible for global unrest. And it is human beings who have… — Mehdi Hasan Human Copy Share Image
Every morning, I take a deep breath and then go online to discover what new insult or smear has been thrown in… — Mehdi Hasan Abuse Copy Share Image
Orthodox Islam, like orthodox interpretations of the other Abrahamic faiths, views homosexuality as sinful and usually defines marriage as only ever a… — Mehdi Hasan Debate Copy Share Image
We have to find a way to try and reconcile our beliefs - and Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, has traditionally seen… — Mehdi Hasan Christianity 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 Believe 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… — Mehdi Hasan Born 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… — Mehdi Hasan Cynical Copy Share Image
The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their… — Mehdi Hasan Failure Copy Share Image
As a supporter of secularism, I am willing to accept same-sex weddings in a state-sanctioned register office, on grounds of equity. As… — Mehdi Hasan I am Copy Share Image
How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs - 635,000… — Mehdi Hasan Bombs Copy Share Image
Like Obama before him, Trump will escalate in Afghanistan. Like Obama before him, Trump will lose in Afghanistan. And the rest of… — Mehdi Hasan Look 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?… — Mehdi Hasan Corrupt Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't 16-year-olds who pay taxes and drive not be allowed to vote? — Mehdi Hasan Drive 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 Disaster 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 Any Copy Share Image
There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. — Mehdi Hasan Conflict Copy Share Image
Proportional representation is as British as first-past-the-post. — Mehdi Hasan British Copy Share Image
To pretend that there is no such thing as the Muslim world is specious, self-deluding, and - frankly - plain silly. — Mehdi Hasan Islam Copy Share Image
To claim that ISIS is Islamic is egregiously inaccurate and empirically unsustainable, not to mention insulting to the 1.6 billion non-violent adherents… — Mehdi Hasan Billion 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 Help Copy Share Image
Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to… — Mehdi Hasan Hold Copy Share Image
Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors - economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial - which shape and drive human… — Mehdi Hasan Action Copy Share Image
Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is… — Mehdi Hasan Democracy 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 Community 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 How Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest boost to the LePenization of French politics came from Nicolas Sarkozy. As president of France between 2007 and 2012,… — Mehdi Hasan Defeat Copy Share Image
If you're gay, that doesn't mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at… — Mehdi Hasan Abuse Copy Share Image
The inconvenient truth that our lazy media elites do so much to ignore is that Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and Warren are much closer… — Mehdi Hasan Ignore Copy Share Image
It isn't only Republicans, it seems, who traffic in alternative facts. Since Donald Trump's shock election victory, leading Democrats have worked hard… — Mehdi Hasan Democrats Copy Share Image
I love my job... but I find myself awkwardly straddling the divide between British Islam and the British media. I get pretty… — Mehdi Hasan Find Copy Share Image
I was 13 years old when I first heard of the Sultan of Brunei. The absolute ruler of a tiny, oil-rich kingdom… — Mehdi Hasan British Copy Share Image
