Rencana di bawah ditulis oleh Ziauddin Sardar, seorang pemikir dan penulis yang prolifik. Rencana ini menjadi wadah bagi beliau mengungkapkan apa yang dikenal sebagai “Anwar Phenomenon.”
From Time of India
By Ziauddin Sardar
Last week, I took the Euro Star from St Pancras International station in London to Paris. Just after clearing immigration, I was stopped by a security officer. Nothing unusual in that, except I was the only one he stopped and questioned in literally thousands of passengers. I had some time to kill so I stood beside him to watch who else he interrogates . In 40 minutes, he only stopped two other people. The first was an old man clearly recognisable as a Muslim: beard, cap, badly-fitted suit, Arab (I guessed Tunisian) origins. The other was a person who strikes terror in the heart of every security officer: a Muslim woman in hijab.
This is perhaps the most noticeable feature of the passing decade for us Muslims. We are now universally regarded as objects of suspicion and subjects for interrogation.
