Nationalism & Patriotism
DEBATE VIDEO: Should we be Proud to be Patriotic? [Durham University, UK]
The Durham Debating Union hosted a debate at Durham University on the motion ‘This House is Proud to be Patriotic’ on Friday 23rd October 2015. The video of that debate is available to watch below. Four speakers have been invited to… Read More ›
Moazzam Begg & a reflection of the meaning of ‘citizenship’
Moazzam Begg, the UK Muslim activist for raising awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror, has faced a series of harassment from the UK government. Culminating… Read More ›
Debate Video: Abdullah al Andalusi debating Patriotism at Oxford Union
My Oxford Union have uploaded the video of the debate ‘This House is proud to be Patriotic’, that was held at the Oxford Union on 14th November 2013, Oxford University. The Oxford Union is the world’s most prestigious debating society,… Read More ›
The Remembrance Day Poppy: Opium for Masses
Nationalism is the religion of the modern secular world. People worship their country like religious people worship God. Nationalists ‘thank’ their country for ‘providing’ for them, ‘raising’ them, and ‘protecting’ them, and giving them a place to live (why not… Read More ›
Celebrating Pakistan’s In-Dependence Day
It was Pakistan’s ‘independence’ yesterday, and many Muslims in that region will be celebrating what they have been blindly taught to believe is a moment of pride for them. That a state for Muslims was created, based upon the principles… Read More ›
Being proud of our troops
Many British politicians and some Muslims have been openly expressing that they are proud that (colonial) Muslim soldiers fought in World War 1 ‘for their country’. I would also like to express my pride at Muslim soldiers who fought in… Read More ›
A thought regarding the 11th September 2011 commemoration
Today we should all remember a tragic event – the day a vicious world empire found a publicly acceptable excuse to bomb others, invade non-threatening nations, torture political dissidents and kill at least 300,000 innocent people, in pursuit of economic… Read More ›
Nationalism – and the reason why Obama will be like all the rest
Nationalism – the bonding into a group of a set of people behind an arbitrary concept of self-identification. e.g. I’m white, you’re black, I’m ‘french’, you are ‘not’ …etc Nationalism is even more arbitrary then rascism, since rascism is based… Read More ›
Abdullah al Andalusi 