Shada Islam

Progressive Anti-Racist Anti-Colonial Idealist & award-winning EU Commentator Speaker Moderator Professor also

[Shada Islam @shada_islam]

Today, the EPP resolution on "Islamist entryism", a discredited conspiracy theory peddled in France and Austria was adopted by a majority in the European Parliament.

[The Bridge Initiative @bridgeinit]

"European democracy is hollowed out rather than reinforced when an entire religious or ethnic minority and its civil society are regarded as permanently suspect." via @shada_islam

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[Shada Islam @shada_islam]

@RSBaIdewsingh opens #GFARD2026 @UNESCO Global Forum Against Racism and Discrimination.

[Eldar Mamedov @EldarMamedov4]

Ten years ago, I helped shape the EU’s ambitious strategy for engagement with Iran. The EU was then a serious diplomatic player. Today, it has lost relevance, while others do diplomacy.

How did Europe squander its influence?

My latest for @RStatecraft

https://t.co/qOw9jtCpGE

[Shada Islam @shada_islam]

[Exclusive] Iran war and Israeli airstrikes derail thousands of EU deportation flights – EUobserver https://t.co/tN30wlVbkH

[Rod @rodjnaquin]

Hannah Arendt delivered this lecture, "Thinking and Moral Considerations," in 1971, several years after she had covered Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. That trial left her with a nagging question: how could someone commit such horrific acts without being a monster or fanatic? She concluded Eichmann's defining trait was simply an inability to think — he relied on clichés and fell apart when none applied. This lecture is her attempt to work out whether moral judgment depends on this capacity to think.

To explore this, she turns to Socrates as her model of real thinking. He described himself three ways: a gadfly who wakes people up, a midwife who helps others examine their own ideas without ever supplying answers, and an electric ray that paralyzes others by first being paralyzed itself. Genuine thinking, in her view, doesn't produce fixed rules — it unsettles things, which is both its value and its risk, since that same unsettling can tip into nihilism if people mistake uncertainty for permission.

Her central insight is that thinking is really an inner conversation — a "two-in-one" dialogue with yourself. Conscience, she argues, isn't some built-in moral sense; it's just what happens when you're forced to face yourself in that inner dialogue. People who never pause for this conversation have nothing stopping them from doing terrible things, because there's no inner witness there to object.

She ends by linking thinking to judgment — our everyday ability to say "this is wrong" without consulting a rulebook. Thinking itself is quiet and produces no visible results, but in moments when society's norms collapse, people who've practiced this habit of inner questioning are more likely to recognize wrongdoing and refuse to go along with it.

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[Shada Islam @shada_islam]

French politicians who are now expressing shock and horror at the awful #Islamophobic terrorist attack in #Trappes carry much of the blame for stoking hatred and fear over the last few weeks. Words can kill. Hate speech has consequences.

[franceinfo @franceinfo]

🔴 Fusillade de Trappes : "C'est la première fois qu'il y a un acte terroriste pour tuer nos compatriotes, nos enfants, en raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion qu'on leur donne", déclare Emmanuel Macron.

"canal16 #franceinfo

[Amira Elghawaby @AmiraElghawaby]

Devastating news from France.

Innocent people become the targets when hate, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim hate is allowed to fester.

Praying for the little girl and all the victims; condolences to the families of those killed and injured.

[Shada Islam @shada_islam]

https://t.co/Go84LcEqmI
#Trappes #France #terrorism

[Schams El Ghoneimi @SchamsEU]

La haine anti-musulmans, si violemment exprimée aujourd'hui à #Trappes, est tout sauf un cas isolé :

1) Les français perçus comme "musulmans" sont le 2ème groupe le plus bas dans l'Indice de Tolérance des minorités (après les "Roms" et devant les "Noirs" et les "Juifs")

Source @CNCDH 2025 https://t.co/xRLH1dzIkR

2) Le renseignement territorial (DNRT) a enregistré 326 faits anti-musulmans en 2025, en hausse massive de 88 % par rapport à 2024, malgré la forte tendance de ce groupe à ne pas porter plainte

3) Elle s'insère dans une recrudescence des actes racistes, islamophobes et antisémites :

OR
- nos institutions publiques et les ONG en charge de documenter, de vérifier et d'alerter l'opinion sur la haine anti-musulmans... sont en train d'être marginalisées via des arbitrages budgétaires qui sont loin d'être neutres, de Paris à Bruxelles.

Ou pire, censurées :
- Interdictions administratives disproportionnées (lycées musulmans d'excellence, associations de lutte contre l'islamophobie...)

4) ET POURTANT
Sous la direction de la Ministre Aurore Bergé la @DILCRAH ne mentionne nul part de plan de lutte contre la haine anti-musulmans, ce n'est pas une blague:

Plan National 2026: https://t.co/NSB7Vf2CWp

Où allons-nous?

[Eldar Mamedov @EldarMamedov4]

Fear and hate: that is mostly what European politicians offer today. Read @shada_islam

[Shada Islam @shada_islam]

Student protests across Europe are a desperate cry for help, an appeal to governments to build a brighter, hope-filled future. Instead of paying attention, European politicians have decided to manhandle the protesters, misrepresent their demands and manipulate public opinion.

[Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_]

📰 The Guardian: Europe's response to Gaza exposed cracks in the continent that reveal double standards in how it holds different governments accountable, argues commentator Shada Islam.

[Shada Islam @shada_islam]

My latest 👉🏼 https://t.co/17SLINK8jO

[ThePrintIndia @ThePrintIndia]

‘Their Faiz and ours’: Mohammed Hanif on Indian protesters singing Pakistani poet

Debdutta Chakraborty @debdutta_c reports

ThePrint #GoToPaksitan

https://t.co/kLFACbjpFy

[Nobel Peace Center @NobelPeaceOslo]

"Why would you need courage to speak the truth?"
Navi Pillay, Nobel Peace Prize 2026

Photo: Wikus de Wet / AFP

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

The new Nobel Peace laureate Navi Pillay had a 2022 prize ceremony in the Berlin town hall cancelled because of accusations of "antisemitism," in case you thought any of this is new

[Shada Islam @shada_islam]

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[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

“The last thing I did is the [] report on Gaza, naming what is happening there as a genocide.”

“Why would you need courage to speak the truth? You interpret the law, you look at all the facts, so it’s an impartial decision"

(She's also funny!)

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

#NobelPrize