Hence why I keep emphasising solidarity instead of splitting up into smaller tribes.

Yeah, they made that fatwa after the photos from Abu Gharib.

I want to hang with you and play Twister.

Anas,
I want to hug you.

well you certainly said something sensible there Anas! a pleasant thought for a friday afternoon..

Mostly I suffer discrimination on the basis of being an idiot, if truth be told.

Sad but true. I can’t help myself.

“People tend to split off into different tribes depending on who they perceive as the common threat.

Which tribe are you splitting off into Muslim or Asian? Promoting pointless and self-defeating identity politics that is what you are doing. Be a proper socialist and promote some solidarity amongst Asians and other communities.

Right on brother! As if anyone here said it was.

(fill in counter-example here, ad nauseum)

No, not a good thing. But then neither is reducing much of Lebanon to rubble, or wiping out whole families of people in Gaza.

Nowadays the greatest victims of Western(Neo)imperialism live in Iraq, or Palestine or in the dictatorships of the Arab and Muslim world — and the main targets of racism and discrimination in this country and in most of Europe are Muslims. What use is uniting under the banner of “Asian” in this context? I mean it’s obvious, that although British Hindus and Sikhs (and Christians, Atheists, Agnostics, etc from the subcontinent) may feel a great deal of sympathy, they won’t feel as much resentment and upset as a group, against what’s happening in, say, Palestine, and so won’t be likely to feel strongly enough to take action. In this connection I recall Sunny’s writing about the response he’d got from an elder in a Gurdwara to his leafleting against the War in Iraq, namely, who cares if Muslims are getting killed. It’s sad but true, that’s the way things are nowadays, solidarity is in short supply — and in fact it’s never really been particularly strong anyway. People tend to split off into different tribes depending on who they perceive as the common threat.

And blow themselves up in Tel Aviv and London every now and then too! Not a good thing.

So in that respect this dissolution of the asian identity might be more positive than negative

It depends on how you look at it. For Muslims who want to distance themselves from Hindus and Sikhs, it’s a good thing, and vice versa.