Mehdi Hasan Quotes

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.

The government should stop emphasizing difference and engage with Muslims as citizens, not through their religious identity.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

We all have our place in this diverse Spain.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.