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The identity politics of many Muslims, and critics of Islam, are deeply corrosive | Kenan Malik

Condemning them as ‘sectarian’ is only adding to the clamour that they have no place in the west

A poll suggests that most British Muslims identify more with their faith than with their nation. The he…

27 days ago

The white working class is nothing like what politicians think – or claim – it is | Kenan Malik

A new book, Underdogs, demolishes the myth that it is homogeneous in its hostility to immigration

‘Many of those who act as the champions of the white person against immigrants,” Labour MP David Winni…

34 days ago

Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets | Kenan Malik

Arrests, blacklists and deportations are chilling reminders of the red scare that transformed America

‘Gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that goes into the finding and getti…

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Ignore the row: this Oscar-winning film offers a vision of a shared Palestine forged in solidarity | Kenan Malik

The documentary is both antisemitic and Israeli propaganda, according to critics. The truth is, it provides a rare glimpse of hope

In 2009, Tony Blair visited Masafer Yatta, a collection of hamlets in…

62 days ago

For a stagnating left mired in pessimism, Milton’s radical vision is poetry in motion | Kenan Malik

The poet-prophet shows us how to sustain hope and redemption in the wake of political defeat

‘Is this pessimism?”, TJ Clark asks in his 2012 essay For a Left with No Future. “Well, yes.” How else, he …

69 days ago

Can a brown Hindu be English? English people say yes. Why do so many on the right say no? | Kenan Malik

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated

‘They think they’re English because they’re born here. That means if a dog’s born in a stable it’…

76 days ago

When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik

Language can ‘open eyes’, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices

‘Whatever the attack was about, it wasn’t about The Satanic Verses.” So insists…

83 days ago

Global leaders have a selective view of sovereignty. It matters, as long as it’s in their interests | Kenan Malik

Whether in Gaza or the Chagos Islands, denying a people’s identity and rights paves the way to robbing them of their autonomy to govern

Sovereignty matters. Except when it doesn’t. And it doesn’t whe…

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