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Ed Husain's autobiography The Islamist: why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left (Penguin, 2007) is a remarkably candid account of the life of a British-born Muslim who was initially seduced by radicalism but gradually came to his senses to return to the more spiritual and devotional Islam that had defined his early years. It is also an important work, in that it both carefully grounds the issue of radicalisation that has so dominated recent intellectual and political discussion of Muslim communities in Britain, and points to potential solutions. Ed Husain grew up...

The recent Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action once again highlighted an uncomfortable reality that a minority group (in this case, Asian Americans) mostly opposes a position held by the progressive movement and the Democratic Party. The response from the left was to depict Asian Americans — who, polls show, oppose the use of racial preferences in college admissions to increase diversity — as dupes or tools being used by white conservatives to attack other vulnerable minorities.

The U.S. Air Force abandoned an experiment aimed at boosting pilot training graduation rates for women and minority pilots after the 2021 initiative failed to achieve the intended results and officers privately warned it could violate anti-discrimination policies, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. As part of the larger military-wide effort to promote diversity in the service’s pilot ranks, the 19th Air Force command near San Antonio, Texas, “clustered” racial minorities and female trainees into one class, dubbed “America’s Class,” to find out if doing so would improve the pilots’ graduation rates. However, not only did...

It’s not the Great White Way. A white sign-language interpreter says he was booted from “The Lion King” on Broadway because of his skin color. Keith Wann, 53, was one of at least two people forced off the production by the non-profit Theatre Development Fund – which staffs Broadway shows with American Sign Language interpreters – after the group decided it was “no longer appropriate to have white interpreters represent black characters for ASL Broadway shows.” Wann filed a federal discrimination lawsuit on Tuesday against the organization and the director of its accessibility programs, Lisa Carling. ... Carling’s decision came...

You all know George Floyd. Floyd was a career criminal who died under the knee of a policeman on May 25, 2020. His COD was listed as “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.” Although he had a lethal level of fentanyl in his blood when he died it was dismissed as a possible COD, as was his heart disease. One might be tempted to think George Floyd was the only person ever to die under the knee of a policeman (doing what he was trained to do) but one would be wrong. One might think that...

"Equity" is defined as being fair and impartial. "Rank and file" are the ordinary members of an organization or business as opposed to its senior leaders. The number of U.S. workers reached a high of 165 million in early 2020, at the start of the COVID pandemic. If you tally the number of CEOs, add the estimated people who report directly to those CEOs, plus the directors of the organizations these senior leaders manage one, can estimate that the top brass represent less than 3% of the total workforce. So how have the other 97%, the rank and file, the...

Watch out, Larry Elder—“the black face of white supremacy”—you’ve now got some competition from Condoleezza Rice, a “foot soldier for white supremacy.” That’s how former MSNBC host Touré described Rice after her recent appearance blasting Critical Race Theory on “The View.” Condoleezza Rice’s recent appearance on The View was offensive and disgusting for many reasons, but she was who we thought she was: a soldier for white supremacy. Her thoughts on Critical Race Theory are completely white centric, as in, they revolve around the thoughts and needs of white people. Her primary argument against Critical Race Theory is that history...

Police are looking for a group of three women who witnesses say attacked a woman who was alone at the moment at Busch Gardens Williamsburg on Sept. 25. James City County police say they responded to the incident near the Apollo’s Chariot coaster. The suspects and victims all fled the scene before officers arrived, police said. Video sent in from one of our readers shows many people involved in the fight. The incident happened just a month after another fight caught on video at the park. Police are still looking for three women in that case. In the video we...

Look at the happy picture that the the ridiculous Democratic Party legislators took while they flee jobs in Texas to hang out with parasites in Washington, D.C.All of the young metrosexual manlet communists should pay attention to the new socialist hierarchy in case you were not paying attention: black women, white women, and lastly, beta white males.Those sad cucks in that picture will not even show their faces as they hide behind the seats.

In the last twelve months we have been ceaselessly bombarded by claims that America is a racist society in which Black people are oppressed by White people. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the last twelve months we have been ceaselessly bombarded by claims that America is a racist society in which Black people are oppressed by White people. This is a truly astonishing claim because nothing could be further from the truth. You can conduct a quick reality check yourself. Despite their fervent accusations of racism, those who make them have not been able to point to...

Police in Louisville, Kentucky, are investigating a Mother’s Day attack that resulted in a broken nose for a disabled army veteran. The victim, Pamela Ahlstedt-Brown, says she was parked in a handicapped spot near the entrance of a Kroger grocery store and an altercation ensued when she backed up and noticed another vehicle blocking her in, according to Wave 3 News. “I get out, and I say, ‘Do you guys need any help?’ and she said, ‘F--- you, you white b----,'” Ahlstedt-Brown said about the attack against her. “‘Hold on, you don’t even know me,' I said, ‘That’s fine. If...

The Boston Globe editorial team and "How to be an Antiracist" author Ibram X. Kendi are joining forces to create a news outlet dedicated to reframing the national conversation on race. What are the details? "The Emancipator," as it will be called, is the brain child of Kendi and Boston Globe editorial page editor Bina Venkataraman. The two reportedly met last summer as nationwide protests raged on following the death of George Floyd to discuss how to take advantage of ongoing conversations about race. Then last week they announced the plans. The publication is to be styled after historic abolitionist...

Comedian King Keraun Harris is on a journey of discovery, fully immersing himself in white culture. Competitive dodgeball and curling to latte art and rock-a-billies – his mission is to understand why white people do what they do.

There is a lot of angry noise right now but also a noticeable, disturbing, silence. The noise is coming, of course, from Black Lives Matter activists and their supporters and enablers. The silence is coming from people who are normally happy to share their views but who are keeping their heads down and their mouths shut. That is where we are in the USA in 2020. Many people are afraid to express their opinions. And not without reason. Raise your voice against riots, statue smashing, police acquiescence, political opportunism, and the accompanying corporate virtue-signaling; express any kind of concern at...

NEW YORK (AP) — After changing its usage rules last month to capitalize the word “Black” when used in the context of race and culture, The Associated Press on Monday said it would not do the same for “white.” The AP said white people in general have much less shared history and culture, and don’t have the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color. “We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore these problems,” John Daniszewski, the AP’s vice president for standards, said in a...

If the ability of parents to choose schools is a precondition for disproportionate concentrations of students of the same background in some schools, then it is important to examine school segregation in the context of school choice writ large. In many large school districts, parents are able to choose among traditional public schools, not just among charter or magnet schools. We know little about the effects of choice in this context. Lately, our country looks like forgot the days of the segregation and now it seems that we are having some sort of reverse racism. On Twitter user named Sam...

Now, questions over Hodges’ support of Trump and social media affinity for Kirk have aroused suspicion. “Some people think it’s deep in his heart,” said the Rev. Gwen Webb, who took part in Birmingham civil rights marches in 1963 and is now associate pastor of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in west Birmingham. “If they allowed them to continue to meet there (at Parker and Woodlawn), there was going to be a lot of hostility. We really don’t need any more negative pushback in the city. Negative things bring negative consequences.”

University of Cambridge has spoken out in support of one of its lecturers who was hit by a wave of abusive messages and death threats for tweeting 'White Lives Don't Matter'. Dr Priyamvada Gopal, 51, who teaches in the Faculty of English at Churchill College, took to the social media platform on Tuesday evening to write: 'I'll say it again. White Lives Don't Matter. As white lives.'