Articles by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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A Worse Record than Saddam’s
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – The Independent, 1 Nov 2010

Now imagine good Muslims worldwide, who know all about universal rights, but can see that there is no universal accountability, that Third World despots are made to pay while others earn millions writing autobiographies and lecturing the world on good leadership and governance…. Hundreds of savvy, smart, keenly aware young people email me from various Muslim states asking: “What’s the point? They say one thing and do the opposite. They say they want to help us and kill our people. Why should we trust the British and Americans?”… What do our army commanders and American leaders advise me to tell these disenchanted Muslims?… Those who took us into this war are not obliged to explain themselves, not liable. In that they are worse than the dictator they toppled. Not comfortable that thought, but true.

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DON’T ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS COUNT?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, 28 Sep 2009

Netanyahu has what he wants to keep up the idea of his plucky, vulnerable little state.Influential Europeans – including many Muslims – recently debated freedom of expression with the Danish editor who commissioned the cartoons of Prophet Mohammed which led to riots. Held in Berlin, it was a good, at times blazing, debate. Freedom of […]

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