Simply Shada
@simplyshada.bsky.social
Progressive Idealist Anti-Racist Anti-Colonial award-winning EU commentator on diversity, inclusion, geopolitics & more
When Words Become Weapons of Racial Terror | Henry A. Giroux www.filmsforaction.org/articles/whe...
When Words Become Weapons of Racial Terror | Henry A. Giroux
How racist rhetoric normalizes cruelty, legitimizes political violence, and transforms language into an instrument of intimidation and racial domination.
filmsforaction.org
As the far right becomes more influential, many forget that democratic freedoms rarely disappear all at once. They begin to erode when some voices are silenced, some suffering is ignored and the rights of some citizens are treated as less deserving than others. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How Gaza changed Europe, exposing cracks that grow bigger by the week | Shada Islam
Solidarity with Palestine’s suffering is punished but MEPs allow a witch-hunt of European Muslims, says Brussels-based commentator Shada Islam
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As I listen to recent EU debates on European Muslims, I start feeling like the boy who sees dead people in the movie “The Sixth Sense”. Only in my case, I hear sinister echoes of Europe’s ugly past. shadaislam.substack.com/p/as-it-worr...
Today, the EPP resolution on "Islamist entryism", a discredited conspiracy theory peddled in France and Austria was adopted by a majority in the European Parliament. European politicians Jane not learned a lesson from our cruel European history. Read here👇🏽 shadaislam.substack.com/p/can-europe...
Can Europe’s Witch-Hunt of Muslims Be Stopped Before Halloween?
The EU is engaging in doublespeak when it comes to relations with its European citizens. In an already polarised Europe, the contradictions must be sorted out before Halloween.
shadaislam.substack.com
EU governments continue to authorise arms sales to Israel despite rules and the EU treaties that require them to protect children's rights.
The children of Gaza are being killed every day. Where are the headlines?
EU governments continue to authorise arms sales to Israel despite rules and the EU treaties that require them to protect children's rights.
euobserver.com
The obscenity is that three years on, the killing of children in #Gaza has become a familiar event. The shame is that so many of us have constructed a hierarchy in which some children summon the world’s full moral and political force, while others are ignored. euobserver.com/241274/the-c...
The children of Gaza are being killed every day. Where are the headlines?
EU governments continue to authorise arms sales to Israel despite rules and the EU treaties that require them to protect children's rights.
euobserver.com
Muslim success is suspect...where I explain "Islamist entryism", the nonsensical new Islamophobic trope doing the rounds in Europe shadaislam.substack.com/p/can-europe...
Trick or treat? It’s still a few weeks to Halloween but the EU’s top policymakers have already prepared a big bag of tricks and a handful of sweets for Europe’s Muslims. shadaislam.substack.com/p/can-europe...
Can Europe’s Witch-Hunt of Muslims Be Stopped Before Halloween?
The EU is engaging in doublespeak when it comes to relations with its European citizens. In an already polarised Europe, the contradictions must be sorted out before Halloween.
shadaislam.substack.com
Assal Rad on how the mainstream press has failed in its coverage of Gaza.! 🦋 www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
Assal Rad on how the mainstream press has failed in its coverage of Gaza.
Assal Rad on how the mainstream press has failed in its coverage of Gaza.
cjr.org
shadaislam.substack.com/p/noor-jehan...
Noor Jehan’s Songs Offer Solace Amid Trump’s Rants and Europe’s Timidity
On days when Brussels feels especially airless, I find myself going back to the songs and inspiring story of the mesmerising legendary Pakistani singer Noor Jehan who has stirred my soul since birth.
shadaislam.substack.com
Has Ed Sheeran been taking lessons from the EU’s mealy-mouthed senior officials? Sheeran’s statement on #Palestine is similar to the language #Brussels has perfected over the past three years of #Israel’s genicide on #Gaza. Bland, full of platitudes & absolutely meaningless.
Ursula von der Leyen's speech tomorrow will underline the need to protect EU democracy from external threats. But Europe’s real challenge is to tackle inequalities & concentrations of economic, political and tech power that hollow out democracy from within and allow the Far Right to flourish.
shadaislam.substack.com/p/islamophob...
Islamophobia, 9/11 and “Where Are You Really From?”
After 9/11 everyone became an expert on Islam. I became used to friends, acquaintances and strangers offering unsolicited and often offensive advice and opinions on my faith. It has become worse.
shadaislam.substack.com
#Islamophobia in #Europe is often blamed on the far right. The truth is more dangerous...instead of being pulled rightwards, Europe’s mainstream parties are, in fact, actively mobilising and expanding reactionary discourses and policies. euobserver.com/232655/europ...
Europe’s dangerous art of anti-Muslim doublespeak
"Of course, this isn’t against all Muslims," the EPP says reassuringly, only against those who practice "political Islam as an ideology." And of course it is not intended to be a "discriminatory enter...
euobserver.com
Families often end up squabbling over possessions and money. Yet what we truly inherit from our parents has no price. If we are fortunate, we inherit their decency and compassion, the poems they loved, the music that kept them company in good times and bad... open.substack.com/pub/shadaisl...
Akhtar Shirani, My Mother and Me
My mother has left me her love of a Pakistani poet whose poems of love, longing and the belief in a more humane world gave her comfort in difficult times and give me solace and hope today.
open.substack.com
euobserver.com/224821/the-e...
The EU’s foreign policy problem isn’t institutions – it’s the quality of its leaders
Europe's standing will not be restored by shifting responsibilities from one building to another, moving competences between commissioners and directorates-general, or publishing yet another security ...
euobserver.com
We often speak of the privilege of wealth, education, mobility or security. For the first time in my life, I recognised that there is also the privilege of mourning. open.substack.com/pub/shadaisl...
Lives That Shaped Me: Who Gets to Grieve in Today's World?
After my mother’s death, I began thinking about those who are denied even the dignity of mourning. Grief is universal. The chance to mourn is not.
open.substack.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The EU is inviting the Taliban to Brussels. Europe’s credibility lies in tatters
As ICE-style deportation rules come into force, the unsavoury circle the EU wants migrant deals with includes the Afghan regime. This is a nadir, says Shada Islam, a Brussels-based commentator on EU a...
theguardian.com
In June the EU agreed on new rules dubbed Deportation Regulation. The rules allow detention of migrants in offshore locations for unlimited periods of time. The new regime legitimises ICE-style cruelty &violence. Women Against Fascism’s counterproposal to solve the migration panic: deport fascists.
