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You underestimate John Bolton at your peril.
What we want is responsible journalism. We want to avoid bigotry.
Proportional representation is as British as first-past-the-post.
Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.
Republicans don't give a damn about anti-Semitism. They just don't care.
There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
I am a believing and practising Muslim - but I am also a social democrat.
The reality is that far-right extremism is no longer dominated by loners.
There's a general ignorance about how Muslims live and what Muslims believe.
Deficit, deficit, deficit. The political and media elites are obsessed with the D-word.
Most Asians I know still don't trust the Tories on race - and they have good reason not to.
Lampooning racism by reproducing brazenly racist imagery is a pretty dubious satirical tactic.
Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds.
I'm a fan of robust debate, and I'm not averse to engaging in the odd ad hominem attack myself.
The public is to the left not simply of New Labour, but the political and media classes as a whole.
I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.
You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it.
Islam, for example, like so many other faiths, stresses the importance of mutual solidarity with our fellow man.
I think that the anti-Semitic problem in the British Muslim community is worse than among the community at large.
Anti-Semitism isn't just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and commonplace.
To pretend that there is no such thing as the Muslim world is specious, self-deluding, and - frankly - plain silly.
There is very little chance of the modern Republican Party putting the national interest above their own partisan interests.
Are we willing and able to stand up to Islamophobia on days when there are not brutal terrorist attacks on Muslims in mosques?
There are no authentic reports in any of the Muslim books of history of the Prophet Muhammad punishing anyone for same-sex acts.
The rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria has been a disaster for the public image of Islam - and a boon for the Islamophobia industry.
It is worth noting that Steve King of Iowa is far from the only Republican member of Congress to offer cover to white nationalists.
I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate - especially (especially!) within Muslim communities.
I will call out someone if he's Islamophobic, and I will also call out anti-Semitism. It's immoral to call out one and not the other.
Scepticism may be evidence of a healthy and independent mindset; but conspiracism is a virus that feeds off insecurity and bitterness.
I've lost count of the number of websites that try to 'out' every Muslim in public life as an extremist or Islamist of some shape or form.
Have you ever been called an Islamist? How about a jihadist or a terrorist? Extremist, maybe? Welcome to my world. It's pretty depressing.
Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is ahistorical nonsense.
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 far right.
Stop treating Muslims as if they're some kind of foreign, alien entity rather than part of the fabric of Canadian society or American society or British society.
Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to account.
Even as evidence mounts that immigration is bolstering the British economy, the political consensus seems to be that bashing immigration boosts electoral fortunes.
The terrorists may want to try and legitimize their violence by cynically appealing to Islamic motifs or doctrines, but there is no reason the rest of us should help them do it.
The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.
To claim that ISIS is Islamic is egregiously inaccurate and empirically unsustainable, not to mention insulting to the 1.6 billion non-violent adherents of Islam across the planet.
Like Obama before him, Trump will escalate in Afghanistan. Like Obama before him, Trump will lose in Afghanistan. And the rest of us, shamefully, will continue to look the other way.
The reality is that religion, across the board, and in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace - and it is childish and naive, not to mention utopian, to believe otherwise.
When you demonize Muslims as a community, as an entire group of people based on the crimes or actions of a tiny minority within that community, you have very worrying, real world effects.
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 that there isn't a threat from some British Muslim homegrown extremists.
Always remember: You have to identify the disease before you can begin work on a cure. In the case of support for Donald Trump, the results are in: It isn't the economy. It's the racism, stupid.
Social media has emboldened an army of online Islamophobes; in the real world, mosques have been firebombed and politicians line up to condemn Muslim terrorism/clothing/meat/seating arrangements.
Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors - economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial - which shape and drive human action and reaction and often is the least important of those factors.
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 popular and principled option for so long now, is neither practical nor possible.
How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have come to be applied to those who represent minority interests and opinions?
The state exists to serve and protect every citizen, regardless of colour, creed, race or religion - and the welfare state should exist to and protect the populace in the same non-discriminatory and universal manner.
Every morning, I take a deep breath and then go online to discover what new insult or smear has been thrown in my direction. Whether it's tweets, blogposts or comment threads, the abuse is as relentless as it is vicious.