#abd-el-fattah — Public Fediverse posts
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I wonder how the wonderful volunteers that are critical to the success of the Adelaide Festival are feeling about the Board’s decision.
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Thank you to this extraordinary list of writers who are standing with Randa #AbdelFattah. Constraining #FreedomOfSpeech constrains the strength and freedom of a healthy, vibrant and strong community. It is critical to maintaining and increasing the strength and wellbeing of communities - counter to what we are seeing in lands that were, just yesterday, much better than they are today.
#Australia https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/09/adelaide-festival-boycott-pro-palestine-academic-randa-abdel-fattah-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/alaa-abd-el-fattah-right-citizenship-v2035nq9j
>> At the heart of all this lies the issue of citizenship. In recent years, it’s come to be regarded as a right. But it’s not. It’s a privilege to be earned. <<
Melanie Phillips, commenting on the Alaa Abd el-Fattah case, does us the service of summarizing a core doctrine of the far right not just in the the UK but in the USA, France, Germany, and beyond.
Do I need to add this doctrine is hateful, smacking as it does of some of the worst regimes of the 20th century?
See also this post of mine: https://c.im/@jemmesedi/115804388079480934
#Citizenship #FarRight #RightWing #MelaniePhillips #AbdElFattah
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The calls for Abd El Fattah to be stripped of his UK citizenship have, as Emily Thornberry points out, scant support in UK law.
Yet its alarming how many seem to think that the UK government should have the power to deprive persons of citizenship because they have expressed obnoxious opinions in the past.
UK citizenship law is a frightful mess and in need of reform. As part of that reform, it should be enacted that those who have gained UK citizenship either by naturalization or by descent can be deprived of their citizenship only by a court, not by ministerial decision, and only after the presentation and examination of evidence that the citizenship was obtained under extraordinary circumstances of deliberate misrepresentation or as part of a criminal enterprise.
Citizenship should never be a privilege to be granted or revoked according to the whim of Telegraph readers.
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British man held in Egyptian prison
Abd El-Fattah remains in prison despite being unlawfully detained
June 2025
The case of the British citizen Abd El-Fattah is gaining more publicity and his mother, who has been on hunger strike for 245 days, has just been admitted to a London hospital as her medical condition is now critical. The Egyptian government has behaved atrociously throughout and has denied consular access to him in breach of the Vienna Convention. Appeals by the current and previous prime ministers and the Foreign Secretary have been ignored.
Mr Fattah’s ‘crime’ was to mention that someone was tortured in an Egyptian prison and his campaigning
for human rights in the country more generally. He established the Adalah Center for Rights and Freedoms. He is held in very poor conditions in Tora Maximum Security 2 Prison in Cairo (pictured). He is in an airless cell, denied a bed or mattress, not allowed to exercise and is not allowed books or other reading material.
Egypt continues to crush dissent and stifle civil society, arbitrarily arrests thousands including journalists, opposition politicians and peaceful protestors.
His case was debated in parliament in December last year initiated by John McDonnell MP. The Parliamentary Under Secretary John Falconer said:
I re-emphasise, both to Alaa’s family and to the House, that his release remains a priority for the UK Government. I recognise the profound impact that his imprisonment has had on him and his family. The Government, and I as the Minister responsible, are doing all we can to find a resolution. Our priority remains to reunite him with his family, and until that happens, we are working to ensure that he is allowed consular access and support. As I said earlier, supporting British nationals overseas is at the heart of our work at the Foreign Office. That includes dual nationals and more recent British nationals such as Alaa.
Amnesty and two dozen human rights groups have campaigned on his behalf but to no avail. There seems no likelihood of his release since sentences in Egypt are simply rotated. He has been incarcerated for 10 years now. Alaa is part of the Middle East problem more generally and Egypt is seen as important in the issues surrounding Gaza (on its border) and with Iran. The government has been urged to consider sanctions or tougher action but is clearly reluctant to do so. The current Labour government, with its emphasis on growth, is unlikely to take actions which would limit that. The result is that he remains in prison for the foreseeable future. We hope his 69 year old mother, Laila Soueif, survives her ordeal.
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Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah: "Countering violent extremism, governmentality and Australian Muslim youth as ‘becoming terrorist’"
Abstract
This article explores how a ‘regime of truth’ about Muslim youth has been historically produced through the underlying logic of Australia’s counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism (CVE) policies and practices. The article is divided into three parts. I first look at how the pre-emptive logic of countering the ‘becoming terrorist’ constitutes young Australian Muslims. I then interrogate the way CVE has constituted Australian Muslims as a self-contained space, a governmental population divided between ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists’. Lastly, I discuss how CVE operates as a technique of governmentality in the way that it deploys grants programs to foster the ‘conduct of conduct’ of Muslim subjects within this self-contained racialised space. I argue that the central organising logic of community partnership has been the targeting of the conditions of emergence of ‘extremist’ Muslim subjects, thereby guaranteeing the racialisation of Muslim youth as always at-risk, marked with the ‘potential’ of ‘becoming terrorist’.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1440783319842666 @sociology
#raceMaking #islamophobia #reputation #race #racism #whiteSupremacy #whiteness #sociology #policing #terrorism #counterTerrorism #AbdelFattah #conflation #AUPol #Australia