June 2015
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Charleston: A terrorist attack in America
After the Charleston shooting at a historic Black church, the author argues it was plainly terrorism, responds to complaints that only Muslim attackers get that label, and posts his off-the-cuff…
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Diaspora
Myths of Radicalisation
The author excerpts Frank Furedi’s Spiked piece on the Bradford sisters who took their children to Syria, which argues that the language of ‘radicalisation’ reflects a failure to understand the…
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Ajmal Kamal Reviews Alakh Nagri: The Babas who really run Pakistan (and the world)
The author reposts Ajmal Kamal’s Urdu review of Mumtaz Mufti’s autobiography Alakh Nagri, calling it brilliant, and explains for non-Urdu readers the background of Qudratullah Shahab’s nationalist autobiography that Mufti’s…
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Society
Transgender surgery. A civil rights issue?
The author quotes psychiatrist Paul McHugh’s Wall Street Journal argument that transgender identity is a mental disorder of ‘assumption’ rather than a civil rights issue, without adding extended comment.
