Mehdi Hasan Quotes

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.

The argument by the anti-gay-marriage crowd is so absurd, so internally contradictory, and so awash in unproven assertions that it is difficult to take it as anything more than a construct cobbled together by people who just don't like those people.

I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is.

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

The Conservative party has a serious problem. They are stuffed full of homosexuals … yet they want to gain votes by being opposed to homosexuality and appeal to the homophobic and older voters.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Look, there's no place and no point in public life, in any life, for a lot of the things Scott Lively says and believes.

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

I've experienced racism and homophobia my whole life, so I've trained myself to just deal with it calmly, to not cause a scene, and to find a way to calm the situation down.

I say every slur on the planet - racial, homosexual, everything to do with every ethnic group on the planet - and guess what? I will never apologize for that because I know why I do it, and it is to make a valid point about ignorance in this society.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.

How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

Somebody called me a homophobe. I'm not homophobic.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.

I've never gone around bashing homosexuals, and I am not homophobic.