Category Archives: Racism

The received opinion is that Islam ended racism in the Arab world and Islamic belief is built on the equality of the Brotherhood of Man.

The Arab Spring has been successful in getting rid of totalitarian regimes in the Arab world. This is largely a cause for celebration but there are many who lived in those regimes for whom life was safer before the Arab Spring. They are the victims of the Arab racism.

Being a reactionary means never requiring to subject yourself to some self-critcism.

For Darcus Howe, it means blaming white people for black people looting and rioting. Here he is (interviewed by a particularly stupid and confrontational BBC TV presenter) suggesting that the looting of trainers from JD Sports is as an “insurrection of the masses” and shamelessly likens the situation in the UK to Syria.

For David Starkey, it means blaming black people when white went people looting and rioting. In the video segment below, he agrees with part of Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech and said of youth today: “The whites have become black”:

Both of them, of course, are a pair of reactionary race baiters.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad writes about the plight of South Asian migrant workers toiling under slave-labour conditions in the building boom in Dubai. As you would expect, Ahad writes sympathetically about their appalling working and living conditions and goes into depressing detail of their perdition.

Then he writes about having dinner at the home of an Arab aquaintance:

One evening in Abu Dhabi, I have dinner with my friend Ali, a charming Iraqi engineer whom I have known for two decades. After the meal, as his wife serves saffron-flavoured tea, he pushes back his chair and lights a cigar. We talk about stock markets, investment and the Middle East, and then the issue of race comes up.

“We will never use the new metro if it’s not segregated,” he tells me, referring to the state-of-the-art underground system being built in neighbouring Dubai. “We will never sit next to Indians and Pakistanis with their smell,” his wife explains.