August 2014

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The Tunnels of False Hope

Citing Hamas’s war preparations, the poster imagines a Mumbai-style attack many times larger and argues such a strike could bend Israel but not break it, since tunnels can be destroyed…

Brown Pundits Archive6 August 20140 comments
A ring side view of the war

An open thread opening with a ringside account of the Gaza war, in which residents cheered Hamas rockets, and the poster’s view that hard questions and a search for the…

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A (muslim) man looks for the (secular) truth

Quoting a Muslim thinker’s call for Israel to end the occupation, the poster says the real question is whether people identify with Muslims or Jews as victims, and seeks a…

Brown Pundits Archive6 August 20140 comments
No country for young Sikhs (or old)

A note on three Sikhs killed in Saharanpur and one in Peshawar, with sympathy for minorities without a safe haven, quoting a Dawn report.

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How about Indians, Iranians…?

Comments on a reported Saudi ban on marrying women from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chad and Myanmar, suggesting immigration controls would be better than a blanket ban carrying the whiff of racism,…

Brown Pundits Archive6 August 20140 comments
The Second Republic: back-story, future thoughts

Starting from Abul Ala Maududi’s vision of Partition, the poster says he had the right instincts, that Partition would divide and weaken Muslims, but the wrong principles, uniting them by…

Brown Pundits Archive6 August 20140 comments
The Yellow River turns Red

Recalling the 1938 breaching of Yellow River levees that killed 800,000, the poster argues Mao’s atrocities are only now being appreciated and that much of the academic left, with Arundhati…

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Clipping nails (wings) in Su-Varna-Bhumi

Citing the Thai junta’s plans to shape future elections with ‘moral’ people, the poster adds etymology of Siam, Burma and Cambodia from Sanskrit names, reading Suvarnabhumi as ‘land of gold’,…

Brown Pundits Archive5 August 20140 comments
To dream a dream..

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Life and Death in Gaza

A reflection on the Gaza war, citing Omar Ali’s earlier piece on the Palestinian side, then examining Israel and the Muslim world, arguing that rational analysis too often yields to…

Brown Pundits Archive4 August 20140 comments