As a British Muslim in Post-Brexit Britain, This is Not the Country I Grew Up In

We are at a point in British history where those fleeing for their lives are referred to as ‘cockroaches’ and are told they would be better off drowning than reaching these shores.

by Masuma Rahim

For many people, 2016 was the year we realized how divided the world has become. Of course, many of those divisions have always been there, lurking below the surface of supposedly cohesive societies. We knew we had never really extinguished bigotry or prejudice but we did a good job of convincing ourselves that it existed only on the marg…