Identity Politics

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• Dangerous liaisons
  18 April 2010, by siawi2
  Source: http://www.human-rights-for-all.org/spip.php?article55 (From: Daily News and Analysis, 18 April 2010)
  by Gita Sahgal
  For the past two months, the concerns that I expressed publicly about Amnesty International’s relationship with Moazzam  (...)
• U.K.: Criticism does not exclude Muslims from the political process
  7 April 2010, by siawi2
  Source : The Guardian, Saturday 3 April 2010
  We are disturbed by the visible rise, in some parts of the country, of anti-Muslim bigotry resulting in sporadic attacks on Muslims and their places of worship. We deplore this and condemn it  (...)
• Close Reading of The Nation—You Asked
  12 April 2010, by siawi2

  Several people have written to ask what I thought of Don Guttenplan and Maria Margaronis’s article in the Nation on the Gita Sahghal-Amnesty International controversy. I thought it was politically fuzzy, superficial, and slanted.

• Don’t label me...
  30 September 2017, by siawi3

  Don’t label me by my race, Don’t label me by my heritage, Don’t label me by my nationality, Don’t label me with a place...

• U.K.: Supporting the ban of the burqa in France
  9 January 2010, by siawi2
  Source: The Independent, 8 January 2010
  Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: They are right to ban the burka, even if it is for the wrong reasons
  France has never delivered égalité or fraternité to its immigrants. And it often uses liberté to in fact deny those  (...)
• The AI /fundamentalists alliance controversy: Kodachrome
  3 March 2010, by siawi2
  by Meredith Tax
  Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 18:50
  Source: http://www.meredithtax.org/taxonomyblog
  Remember that Simon and Garfunkel song “Kodachrome”— “When I think of all the crap I learned in high school, It’s a wonder I can think at all, But my lack  (...)
• Québec: limite aux accommodements religieux
  16 March 2010, by siawi2
  Tommy Chouinard, La Presse
  Source : http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-quebecoise/201003/15/01-4260968-accommodement-religieux-a-la-ramq-yolande-james-en-desaccord.php
  (Québec) La ministre de l’Immigration et des  (...)
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  19 March 2010, by siawi2
  Association “Shalom, Paix, Salem” : une réaction citoyenne contre l’importation du conflit israélo-palestinien
  Mardi 16 mars 2010 Par Hakim Arabdiou L’association Shalom, Paix, Salem, est née le 1er mars 2009, sur initiatives séparées, puis  (...)
• France : Ce que dit la mission parlementaire sur la burqa
  24 janvier 2010, par siawi2
  Cécilia Gabizon
  Source : Le Figaro, 22/01/2010
  EXCLUSIF - Le Figaro s’est procuré en intégralité le rapport définitif qui doit être rendu mardi. Les élus prônent des dispositions législatives pour l’interdire dans les services publics - y compris les  (...)
• UK - Pakistan: Bilingualism is a privilege
  4 May 2018, by siawi3

  My mother came to Britain as a five year old in the 60s. In those times, it was conform or die – and that wasn’t an exaggeration. No Urdu was allowed to be spoken in the house. They had to master English. My grandmother’s hijab was removed under my grandfather’s instruction. But something was lost to generations that followed them – the identity they were born with.

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