Yassir Morsi·Mar 3, 2017Framing Racism: Why SBS’s #FU2Racism Doesn’t Get Race RightAt the end of SBS’s Is Australia Racist? a marketeer tells host Ray Martin about the “framing effect.”
Yassir Morsi·Sep 29, 2016The word ‘Muslim’ belongs to the ‘war on terror’. It has little to do with me | Yassir MorsiThe word ‘Muslim’ has come to symbolise a thing beyond being Australian, a thing of chaotic violence. So is it any surprise Australians…
Yassir Morsi·Apr 19, 2016The Forgotten Geography of Racism: A Response to Tim SoutphommasaneThe response to the question Is Australia a racist country? from no less a figure than Australia’s Race Commissioner is typical of the way…
Yassir Morsi·Nov 24, 2015No, Isis are not ‘punishing’ us because we don’t love each other enoughAppeals to universal fraternity and tolerance, such as those made by Waleed Aly, have more to do with public performances of ethics than…
Yassir Morsi·Sep 15, 2015Christian refugees are fine, Muslims aren’t. In a post-racist world, of course that’s not racistOf course Australia is a compassionate country, and that entitles us to a return on our generosity: the right to decide who is suitable to…
Yassir Morsi·Jun 24, 2015Calling Dylann Roof a ‘terrorist’ doesn’t erase the privilege of his raceYou can call a white man a terrorist, but will he then be treated to the racial and religious scrutiny normally reserved for Muslims? Of…
Yassir Morsi·Apr 10, 2015The Walking Dead: Fact and Fiction in the West’s anti-Muslim FantasiesTerrorists, it was reported, were planning to infect themselves with Ebola and travel to the West to spread the disease.
Yassir Morsi·Apr 7, 2015‘Reclaiming Australia’ from Islam is really about reclaiming whitenessReclaim Australia’s rallies weren’t a reaction to a real ‘threat’ from Islam. On the contrary, Islamism gives racists a convenient…
Yassir Morsi·Dec 16, 2014Before he flew the black flag, Monis was just a desperate man with a violent pastModern Islam is a potent grammar for capturing and expressing grievance. Lone wolves like Sydney Siege gunman Man Haron Monis must tap into…
Yassir Morsi·Oct 30, 2014Islamophobia is racismIn his 1999 essay on Reconsidering “Islamophobia”, the late academic Fred Halliday argued that “no subject confuses us” more than that of…
