An Apology
I wrote in the July Present Time about an incident of interrupting someone in an oppressed role who was dramatising the oppressor patterns they had internalised. It was to illustrate how every one of us, whatever our identity, is pulled to behave in a victimised role and how we need to choose to avoid it.
I made the cardinal mistake of identifying the person’s oppressed identity. This is all too likely to fuel the overwhelming Islamophobia which all of us with Christian heritage carry unawarely. I am so sorry I did this, and I apologise.
Winchester, Hants, England
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