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Geopolitics
The man without a face
A profile of Mohamed Lamine Mediène, called ‘Toufik’, head of Algeria’s DRS intelligence service, who is said to be more powerful than the president and has no published photograph; the…
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Politics
Who should win the next Noble?
Reading Mark Lilla’s essay, the poster says it laments that Islamism has replaced communism as bad theory with bad practice, and that the Middle East needs a Muslim thinker to…
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Mt. Aga Khan – highest peak of the Pamirs
On Tajikistan’s Pamir peak named for the Aga Khan, the post links the devotion of Badakhshan’s mountain people to a minority religious path, and wonders whether dissenters in rough terrain…
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Revenge!! Justice!!!
On Dov Charney’s removal from American Apparel, the post recalls an advertising episode involving a young Bangladeshi woman that angered conservatives, cites an opinion piece by Rezwana Manjur, and says…
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Modern day slaves in a pre-modern country
With state control gone in Iraq, the post says armed gangs are probably holding hundreds of Indian workers, mostly from Punjab, for ransom, and quotes a report of 231 young…
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‘My mother was wronged, gravely wronged’
Reading A. K. Antony’s remark that the Congress is seen as favouring minorities, the post argues the party is courting conservative Muslims in Kerala, which risks pushing Hindus towards the…
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Society
Our modern age (brainless) doctors
A report that a hospital lost a young patient’s bone flap after surgery, with the poster blaming a society poisoned by profit motive and doubting that a US-style tort system…
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Geopolitics
What is your name?
On ISIS fighters releasing Sunnis and executing Shias in Iraq, the post treats identity questioning as a life-or-death interview, draws a grim comparison with Hindus in Bangladesh, and quotes a…
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“Tomorrow they can be in India”
Citing a scholar’s warning, the post argues the Iraq conflict could endanger Pakistan and even India, given large Shia populations such as Lucknow’s, and that if Iraq’s existential battle deepens,…
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Society
Tiger watch
A survivor’s account of a tiger killing his father in the Sunderbans, with the poster noting that people on both sides of the border, Muslims included, still treat the tiger…
