Razib Khan | May 31, 2011
Kalki Koechlin: Kalki was born to French parents in a small village in Pondicherry. Her parents had come to India 38 years ago and settled there after they fell in love with the country. Her parents are devotees of Sri Aurobindo. As an American I really get aggravated at some of the exclusionary “race popery” [...]
Zachary Latif | May 31, 2011
Brown Pundits abounds with Muslim-origin skeptics, agnostics and heretics (I use that term in a positive context since I see heresy as a good and useful thing); Alina, Zack A, Razib, Omar Ali, Sahar, Malik, Thabet (who I believe is more ambiguous about his religious orientation), Eurasian Sensation (who has Indonesian Muslim ancestry but is not [...]
omar | May 31, 2011
Journalist Saleem Shahzad found dead near Islamabad | Pakistan | DAWN.COM. I dont know if this has been confirmed by other news organizations, but Dawn is generally reliable. btw, Kiyani sahib went to school in sarai alamgir. This might be a message to him (i doubt if it is a message FROM him…I personally think [...]
Zachary Latif | May 31, 2011
There’s been a flurry of postings on this weblong over the Bank Holiday weekend. Personally I think its very healthy; apostasy and hetrodoxy are the strengths of any civilisation. So while its generally known I’m partial to all things Islamic and Pakistan (hence my frequent moratoriums on them) I’m actually happy to see the [...]
Razib Khan | May 31, 2011
Egypt’s Christians Fear Violence as Changes Embolden Islamists: The headline screamed from a venerable liberal newspaper: Coptic Christians had abducted a young Muslim and tattooed her with a cross. “Copts kidnap Raghada!” “They tied me up with ropes, beat me with shoes, shaved my hair,” Raghada Salem Abdel Fattah, 19, declared, “and forced me to [...]
Razib Khan | May 31, 2011
In response to my recent posts on inbreeding, a friend who is an academic human geneticist observed: My sense from the papers I read is that the human genetics community owes much of its continued success to Muslim inbreeding. Inshallah, they’ll keep it up. Who needs unethical breeding experiments? Pakistan Muslims will perform the experiments [...]
Razib Khan | May 31, 2011
Jump to 1:35 for the section relevant to readers of this weblog. Honestly, with statistics like that I’m not sure that I’d be comfortable going to Oslo looking the way I do. Even assuming some skew in the reporting of rape, the statistics are overwhelming. The vast majority of brown and black men in Oslo [...]
Razib Khan | May 31, 2011
In a post below where I allude to a religious riot on the part of Sikhs in the UK, a commenter observes: I am in no way excusing the Sikhs here for what happened, especially in regards to the damage to the center but British Sikhs as a group in the UK have delinquency and [...]
Omar is a Pakistani-American with an interest in history. He also moderates the Asiapeace discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asiapeace/
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