That’s the service he provides. He is a careerist. There is actually a letter leaked where he wrote to some conservative paper saying “i can criticize the left as a ‘leftist’ and Muslims as a ‘muslim’”. He is not even from west Asia, not that it should matter, but people give him more credence because brown guy equals from mid east apparently. He sucks, he is a fraud. So is al jazeera and mid east eye. They are ok on palestine so they can spread imperialist propaganda on everything else.
He started his career as a conservative Muslim activist, advocating for the sexist traditions of Islam among other things. There are videos of him speaking with a heavy arabic accent about it (apparently he gained his british accent as soon as he started working with british media). He’s done his best to scrub this from the internet.
He’ll change anything about himself if it means advancing his career.
Oh yes, I forgot about that video. Good thing for the Grayzones reporting. Regardless of some of the views of the founders aside, they do good reporting.
That’s the service he provides. He is a careerist. There is actually a letter leaked where he wrote to some conservative paper saying “i can criticize the left as a ‘leftist’ and Muslims as a ‘muslim’”. He is not even from west Asia, not that it should matter, but people give him more credence because brown guy equals from mid east apparently. He sucks, he is a fraud. So is al jazeera and mid east eye. They are ok on palestine so they can spread imperialist propaganda on everything else.
To add to this, Mehdi Hassan is a chameleon.
He started his career as a conservative Muslim activist, advocating for the sexist traditions of Islam among other things. There are videos of him speaking with a heavy arabic accent about it (apparently he gained his british accent as soon as he started working with british media). He’s done his best to scrub this from the internet.
He’ll change anything about himself if it means advancing his career.
Oh yes, I forgot about that video. Good thing for the Grayzones reporting. Regardless of some of the views of the founders aside, they do good reporting.