The issue is how you experience Islam
Sadiq Khan: This sickening act has nothing to do with the Islam I know: To murder innocent people, especially during Ramadan, is a rejection of the true values of my religion. Since religion is made up...
View ArticleSarah Haider on Sam Harris’ show
In general I would recommend listening to everything Sarah has to say. She’s speaking for a lot of people. Also see what she has to say about free expression:
View ArticleThe pork episode of Master of None
The Aerogram has a piece out, Bacon & (Un)Belief: Religion & American Secularism in Master of None, which reviews The Master of None episode about religion. I kind of agree that it was a...
View ArticleObjectives Resolution: Logical Culmination or Building Block?
The creation of Pakistan was a culmination of the ‘Indian Muslim National Project’ that was started by Muslim Elites primarily based in UP. It was bound to be a country where religion took center stage...
View ArticleThe Migration
This is second in the series of posts on Kashmir (on its language, people, politics and culture). This one is my perspective on the specific targetting and ethnic cleansing of autochthonous Hindus...
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When all you have is postcolonial theory everything is about the white man
Recently I read a piece, Confronting White Supremacy in Christianity as a Christian South Asian, which is interesting from an anthropological perspective. After all, I don’t know what it’s like to be a...
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Religion trumps race in Sri Lanka
Monk-led mob attacks Rohingya refugees in Sri Lanka: “These are Rohingya terrorists who killed Buddhist monks in Myanmar,” the monk said in his live commentary on Facebook, pointing to Rohingya...
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Disaffection of Kashmiri Muslims
At the outset I must say that I am a Kashmiri Pandit, born in the 80s in Srinagar and my family (and I) were forced to migrate from the Valley in the early 90s. I have summarized my experience on...
View ArticleTurkish Turbulence – Shock Therapy for Turkish Armed Forces
From our regular contributor, Dr Hamid Hussain “A tree won’t fall with a single blow”. Turkish proverb A failed coup attempt by some members of Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) in July 2016 made...
View ArticleWhy nonmuslims treat muslims so badly?
Hi, this is anan. Omar invited me to post at Brown Pundits. I am deeply honored to participate in this community, which I have read since its inception. If it is okay with all of you, I would like to...
View ArticleMuslims, Non-Muslims etc
This post is essentially a response to the newest fellow blogger on brownpundits, AnAn. In my response I’ll try to open up the debate on some of the points (many valid and some questionable) that AnAn...
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East Pakistan 1971
This topic comes up every year in December (for obvious reasons) and this year Dawn has published an unusually good summary of events (from a liberal/progressive/reasonable Pakistani POV). You can read...
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Book Review: The RigVeda
How many fires are there, how many suns? How many dawns? How many waters? I ask this, O fathers, not to challenge. O Sages, I ask it to know (RigVeda Book 10, hymn 88) Full Disclosure: I have not...
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Why do nonmulims mistreat muslims so much?
Can Islam still be Islam without misogyny & armed Jihad? – Discussion with Tarek Fatah Perhaps the reason that nonmuslims mistreat muslims so much is because the vast majority of nonmuslims (and...
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Review: The House of Government
Yuri Slezkine is a Russian-American historian (he is also technically Portuguese-American, since he first emigrated from Russia to Portugal and then came to the US with a Portuguese...
View ArticleIndia under Turkic and English Rule: Assessing the regional and community...
A lot of the mental roadblocks in understanding the impact of Mughal and British rule in India stem from two rigid viewpoints: The Hindu Muslim binary, not realizing that both these modern categories...
View ArticleEarly Indian Islamists (An Overview)
Part 1 Islamism or Political Islam are ideas that emerged in the early twentieth century and were formulated in different parts of the world mainly in response to fall of the Ottoman Caliphate. Two...
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White presenting, women presenting, person defends Dharmic terminology from...
Not sure if I would have believed this tweet existed if it didn’t. But it does. But wait, it gets better! More white presenting people defending the cultural sensitivities of people of the Dharmic...
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When all you have is postcolonial theory everything is about the white man
Recently I read a piece, Confronting White Supremacy in Christianity as a Christian South Asian, which is interesting from an anthropological perspective. After all, I don’t know what it’s like to be a...
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Religion trumps race in Sri Lanka
Monk-led mob attacks Rohingya refugees in Sri Lanka: “These are Rohingya terrorists who killed Buddhist monks in Myanmar,” the monk said in his live commentary on Facebook, pointing to Rohingya...
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