Barona wars There is a Stark comparison between growing Islamophobia In the treatment of Britain and Jewish communities in the 1930s, the “deep dangerous” narratives are being fuel by those in power.
But speaking Is a festival In hee-on-Y, the former Orthodox Cabinet Minister said that the way he was painted in the public discourse to Muslim communities, “heart broke”.
He said, “It doesn’t matter how many times you serve and how many times you do for our country,” he said, in a conversation with British-Israel journalist Rachel Shabi. “You are still not. You still don’t matter. You still cannot trust.”
Warsi, who served as the co-chairman of the Conservative Party and sat in the House of Lords, reflected the experience of a working class in West Yorkshire, the second generation as a Pakistani Muslim. She recently described a conversation with her husband in which she questioned whether she should start preparing the “exit route”.
“I turned to him and I said, are we going to be like Jewish families in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s who were always sitting back, looking at the wall writing and thinking, ‘No, we are all going well. We are very successful. We are very successful. We live in the right part of the city.
Discussion on his new book Muslims do not matterWarsi said that in the British society there was a “strange correlation with skin pigments and gratitude”.
“This is like the dark color you have received, the more grateful you must be to live in your country,” he said.
He argued that the negative perceptions of Muslim communities were not systematically emerging, but were being run by political and media couples. “Good news is, it’s not below,” he said. “These are not ordinary people, thinking that, ‘Oh, I really have an issue with Muslims, and I am going to have very disgusting thoughts about them now.” These are people in power and people with big platforms constantly tell us, ‘We cannot trust Muslims.
“These are these trops that we are constantly telling about Muslim communities, which in the end, poison the public discourse at a point where we begin to see this community in the worst light.”
He said that some people were “desperate” on a far-flung-out “desperate” for a recent attack in Liverpool.
“They could then say,” Aha! Told you so. ” And already there was language: We are in war.
Despite the warning that the current political atmosphere is “deeply dangerous”, with more global conflicts than any point since the Second World War, Warsi ended its presence with a call for solidarity.
“This is a fight for all of us, the kind of country we want to be,” he said. “This is the time for us to organize and it is time for us to fight back, because in the end all our rights will be damaged.”