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Nadeine Asbali
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Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain
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Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain
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“At first I fought it, my teenage self diligently playing the role of the good Muslim, the cool Muslim, the palatable Muslim. I quickly learned that Muslims are accepted in Britain, so long as we are the ‘good ones’. Britain requires us to dilute our identities until we become nothing but Muslim name – and sometimes not even then. Even our names must be repackaged, reduced, bleached of their Muslimness.”
― Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain
― Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain
“The perfect immigrant is the rich immigrant. The privileged immigrant. The highly educated immigrant who comes from a wealthy family abroad and align themselves with right wing politics once they’re here – ironically – to stop people like them from coming into England ever again. The only ideal, perfect immigrant is the one that is barely an immigrant at all. An Englishman in brown(ish) wrapping.”
― Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain
― Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain
“Either we are submissive and subjugated, victims of our own patriarchal cultures and faith – or we are a perverse danger, a veiled threat, wrapping our heads and bodies in our outright rejection of western culture and holding tight to religious views, which are at odds with superior, enlightened European values.”
― Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain
― Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain
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