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The story of Karim
The Yazidi flight from ISIS in 2014, told through one family, set beside the brutalities of Partition in South Asia.
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“Jews, your end is near”
After attacks on synagogues in Paris and Germany during Gaza protests, the poster urges Pakistanis in the UK and others to show empathy beyond their own grievances, drop Hitler admiration,…
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Religion
Hinduism is a “banyan tree”
Quoting a description of Hinduism as a banyan tree without a single essence, the poster calls it a good primer, adds that Hinduism is changing fast, and compares this to…
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Society
What the West must do
A short comment arguing the West should abandon multiculturalism for core values: overhaul immigration in the host society’s interest, abolish racial quotas, and emphasise Anglo-American values.
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Hannibal re-born (in Jerusalem)
On the Israeli Hannibal Directive after a soldier was reported missing, the poster explains the name by retelling the story of Hannibal of Carthage, who drank poison rather than be…
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Geopolitics
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…
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Geopolitics
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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Geopolitics
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…
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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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Society
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,…
