Nicholas

No, as Muslims don’t claim to be an ethnic group or people, but Pakistan is a state that prioritizes religion, not ethnicity, over equal rights and I’m opposed to that as well, and have written and spoken before about the discrimination against Pakistani Shias, Christians and, especially, Ahmadis. I also think all of the ridiculous, divide-and-rule, British-led partitions of the postwar era, from the Middle East to the subcontinent to even Cyprus, to an extent, were a cynical disaster, obviously. Now, your desperate whataboutism and deflections aside, do you accept that Israel is an ethno-national state, because the Jewish nation-state law explicitly says “the right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people” - not to the millions of Palestinians who live there. There are multiple laws and land quotas that privilege Jewish citizens above Palestinians citizens. So maybe, Dan, stick to internal Tory party politics for your Mail gossip columns and don’t make sweeping statements about big subjects you’ve never ever researched or even read a book about. en.wikisource.org/wiki/Full_…