Robert Fisk: Arab Spring has washed the region's appalling racism out of the news
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Long View: Migrant workers from the subcontinent often live eight to a room in
slums – even in oil-rich Kuwait
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.
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