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We should be able to talk about racism without singling out specific groups for either special treatment or special protection.

To portray a people’s experience as unique in the annals of history is hugely problematic. Many groups have suffered at the hands of others through millennia.

And so too have most groups had periods of both ascendancy and decline, and been both oppressor and oppressed.

There are no universal, eternal victims. Human societies are complex, mankind capable of both good and bad.

O mankind! Indeed, We created you male and female, and made you into peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Surely the most noble of you in the sight of God are those best in deeds. God is truly knowing, aware.

Quran 49:13