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Khaled Diab September 14, 2023September 23, 2023 0 Comments Belgium, eu, far right, integration, minorities, multiculturalism, racism

Minorities in Belgium: From the margins to the mainstream

Minorities in Belgium have become prominent and successful in every walk of life, yet they eye a resurgent and radical racist right with a sense of trepidation, especially as elections loom just over the horizon.

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Khaled Diab October 27, 2022October 28, 2022 0 Comments abbasid, africa, ancestry, andalusia, arab, britain, charlemagne, christianity, colonialism, constantinople, democracy, england, eu, harun al-rashid, india, inferiority complex, iran, iraq, islam, middle east, multiculturalism, pakistan, partition, racism, religion, saudi arabia, spain, uk

The queen, the princess and the prophet

Although it is improbable that Elizabeth II is a descendant of Muhammad, one of the British queen’s ancestors was likely a refugee Muslim princess. However, the enduring popularity of this theory speaks some harsh truths about post-colonial reality and sheds light on the intertwined history of Islam and Christendom.

March 1989 demonstration against The Satanic Verses in the Hague.

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Khaled Diab September 30, 2022October 21, 2022 0 Comments atheism, edward said, fatwa, freedom of expression, india, islam, khomeini, multiculturalism, racism, satanic verses, uk, usa

The misinterpretation of Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses

Decades after the release of The Satanic Verses and the calls for his death which followed it, Salman Rushdie remains one of the most wildly and widely misunderstood contemporary writers in the English language.

The thin green line of environmental activism

The environmental movement has scored remarkable recent successes, but the situation for the climate and nature remains fragile and vulnerable. Overcoming the damaging inertia of business as usual requires the thin green line of activists to be reinforced by the swelling ranks of concerned citizens.

Denmark’s white ghetto mindset

By Khaled Diab The concentration of immigrants in certain poor neighbourhoods in Denmark is far more a sign of the

Combating racism is a race against time

The European Union has committed itself to dispelling the spectre of racial prejudice. But with the resurgence of racism and discrimination across Europe, combating it requires urgent action, not just noble words.

How not to fight extremism in America

A sudden lurch from ignoring or underplaying the threat of right-wing extremism in America to treating white crusaders like jihadis and QAnon like al-Qaeda will set off the insurgency timebomb rather than defuse it.

White extinction and the mythical menace of multiculturalism

Despite the paranoid conspiracy theories and fear-mongering of the extreme right, cultural diversity is a beautiful and wondrous thing.

Trump is terrible but Europe and the Middle East have racism too

Rather than humans becoming enslaved by robots, machines have become the new slave or serf class, with devastating consequences for society and the environment. We desperately need a more humane and sustainable approach to automation.

Billionaires and the welfare of nations

The super rich are leaving only the scraps for everyone else to fight over, which is fuelling a mounting wave of intolerance as minorities and migrants are scapegoated for falling wellbeing. For the welfare of all, we must end these stark wealth inequalities before it leads to unmanageable social unrest.

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