“If you're gay, that doesn't mean I want to discriminate against you, b...” — Mehdi Hasan Quote

“If you're gay, that doesn't mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don't want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.”

“Like Obama before him, Trump will escalate in Afghanistan. Like Obama before him, Trump will lose in Afghanistan. And the rest of us, shamefully, will continue to look the other way.”

“Are we willing and able to stand up to Islamophobia on days when there are not brutal terrorist attacks on Muslims in mosques?”

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.”

“When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.”

“Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.”