Johann Hari Follows Robert Fisk In Exposing Racism In The Muslim World

"This is the best place in the world to be young! The government pays for your education up to PhD level. You get given a free house when you get married. You get free healthcare, and if it's not good enough here, they pay for you to go abroad. You don't even have to pay for your phone calls. Almost everyone has a maid, a nanny, and a driver. And we never pay any taxes. Don't you wish you were Emirati?"
Interviewee to Johann Hari

The question of course is what if you are not a native.

If you are not, you can find yourself sympathizing--silently--with the people who are trapped in Dubai. Their description of the region is a little different.

If Robert Fisk Is Speaking Openly of Muslim Racism, Can We Now Talk About The Problem?

How many tracts, books, documentaries, speeches and doctoral theses have been written and produced about Islamophobia? How many denunciations have been made against the Sarkozys and the Le Pens and the Wilders for their anti-immigration (for which, read largely anti-Muslim) policies or – let us go down far darker paths – against the plague of Breivik-style racism?

The problem with all this is that Muslim societies – or shall we whittle this down to Middle Eastern societies? – are allowed to appear squeaky-clean in the face of such trash, and innocent of any racism themselves.
Robert Fisk

Back in March Efraim Karsh wrote that Israel Apartheid Day covers up the multiple crimes of Apartheid throughout the Muslim Middle East, specifically in areas of

• Religious intolerance
• Ethnic inequality
• Racism
• Gender discrimination
• Denial of citizenship
• Labor inequality
• Slavery
• Political Oppression

But in today's climate where criticism of the Muslim world is quickly labeled Islamophobia and swept under the carpet, such criticisms are rarely heard.