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Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion. - Mehdi Hasan
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#Religion
I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality. - Mehdi Hasan
#Always
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Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to account. - Mehdi Hasan
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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? - Mehdi Hasan
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Reagan was no neocon. - Mehdi Hasan
#Reagan
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
#Anyone
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I love my job... but I find myself awkwardly straddling the divide between British Islam and the British media. I get pretty exhausted of having to constantly endure a barrage of lazy stereotypes, inflammatory headlines, disparaging generalisations, and often inaccurate and baseless stories. - Mehdi Hasan
#Find
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#Myself
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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. - Mehdi Hasan
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The moment has come, as we enter the teenies, to forget the idea of a Palestinian state existing side by side with a Jewish state, and to argue and agitate instead for the only remaining, viable and democratic option: a single, secular and binational state for Israelis and Palestinians. - Mehdi Hasan
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As a supporter of secularism, I am willing to accept same-sex weddings in a state-sanctioned register office, on grounds of equity. As a believer in Islam, however, I insist that no mosque be forced to hold one against its wishes. - Mehdi Hasan
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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. - Mehdi Hasan
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#Political
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#Trying
It is man - whether believer or non-believer - who is responsible for global unrest. And it is human beings who have to learn to co-exist in the 21st century, outside of divisive social constructs, religious or otherwise. - Mehdi Hasan
#21st Century
#Global
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The inconvenient truth that our lazy media elites do so much to ignore is that Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and Warren are much closer in their views to the vast majority of ordinary Americans than the Bloombergs or the Bidens. They are the true centrists, the real moderates; they represent the actual political middle. - Mehdi Hasan
#Ignore
#Media
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What we want is responsible journalism. We want to avoid bigotry. - Mehdi Hasan
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Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds. - Mehdi Hasan
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You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it. - Mehdi Hasan
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If you're gay, that doesn't mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don't want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination. - Mehdi Hasan
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#Discrimination
#Gay
#Men
#Women
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