{"id":130862,"date":"2024-05-29T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T04:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/im-a-brown-muslim-european-for-people-like-me-these-eu-elections-are-terrifying\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T04:40:07","slug":"im-a-brown-muslim-european-for-people-like-me-these-eu-elections-are-terrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/im-a-brown-muslim-european-for-people-like-me-these-eu-elections-are-terrifying\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a brown, Muslim European. For people like me, these EU elections are terrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130862\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nEU institutions have already let people of colour down. Now the rise of the far right poses an even greater threat. My inbox is inundated with messages telling me to use my vote in the European elections because if I don\u2019t \u201cothers will decide for you\u201d. My head agrees with the messages from EU politicians that I should do my bit for democracy. But for the first time, my heart isn\u2019t in it.<\/p>\n<p>As a European who is also brown and Muslim \u2013 and who has long wanted the EU \u201cproject\u201d to work \u2013 I am terrified at the extent of power and influence wielded, inside and outside government, by politicians who are unashamedly racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic and whose vision of Europe \u2013 whatever they may say in public \u2013 is also inherently hostile to women, Jews and gay people. And I am worried that it is going to get even worse.<\/p>\n<p>This is a sad and sobering moment for all progressive Europeans. For Europe\u2019s Muslims and racial and ethnic minorities, it is a time of deep personal anxiety. Many feel betrayed and abandoned, not just by EU politicians and policymakers \u2013 they never cared much for us anyway \u2013 but by large parts of the media and EU \u201cexperts\u201d who failed to see the dangers of a far-right Europe, played down the threat, or deliberately looked the other way. Even more painfully, many of our white friends and colleagues still cannot \u2013 or will not \u2013 understand that for us, all this is up close and personal, with a real impact on our mental health and daily lives.<\/p>\n<p>Yet if they paid attention, they would see proof that racism is \u201cpervasive and relentless\u201d across Europe. Islamophobia is on the rise, as is antisemitism, both forms of racism exacerbated by the Israel-Gaza war. With the far right expected to hold even more power in the future and as the EU\u2019s anti-racism action plan runs out of steam, such bigotry is going to get worse.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that racism, discrimination and xenophobia are corroding European democracy from within, creating societal divisions and political polarisation, is rarely discussed in \u201cBrussels so white\u201d. Neither is the inconvenient truth that Europe\u2019s centre-right and liberal politicians have openly or tacitly embraced the extremists\u2019 political agenda and xenophobic view of the world.<\/p>\n<p>It is a toxic view reflected in the EU\u2019s new migration and asylum pact and Rwanda-style plans for sending refugees and migrants to third countries drawn up by the European People\u2019s party, the political group that is home to Ursula von der Leyen, who is seeking a second five-year term as president of the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Many EU governments have been clamping down on freedom of speech and the right to peaceful assembly of those who oppose the Israeli offensive in Gaza, prompting a warning from Amnesty International. The European Commission recently invited Israel\u2019s foreign minister, Israel Katz \u2013 whose statements on Palestinians have been invoked at the international court of justice (ICJ) as proof of the Israeli government\u2019s genocidal intent \u2013 as a virtual guest at a meeting attended by the commission\u2019s vice-president, Margaritis Schinas, who is in charge of \u201cprotecting our European way of life\u201d. Now we also have to worry about a \u201ccivilisational battle\u201d. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, suggests that unlike other cultures, Europe has a \u201ccertain relationship with freedom, justice and knowledge\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/may\/28\/brown-muslim-european-eu-elections-institutions-far-right\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/may\/28\/brown-muslim-european-eu-elections-institutions-far-right\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/im-a-brown-muslim-european-for-people-like-me-these-eu-elections-are-terrifying\/\">I\u2019m a brown, Muslim European. For people like me, these EU elections are terrifying<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,2110,274,14712],"class_list":["post-130862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-elections","tag-eu","tag-terrifying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}