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Shia-killing in Pakistan: Background and Predictions
After a suicide bombing of a Shia mosque in Pakistan, the author asks what drives such attacks and offers background on the Shia community, including its place in the Pakistan…
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Sights & sounds of Cambodia
The author shares photos of Angkor Wat and reflects that the Khmer are originators of a hybrid Hindu-Buddhist-Muslim Southeast Asian culture, and that Cambodia’s name may derive from the Kambojas.
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The Management of Savagery
Quoting Ahmed Humayun’s 3 Quarks Daily analysis of the jihadist text ‘The Management of Savagery’, the poster adds notes on how Islamist narratives draw on Islamicate history and agrees the…
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Blasphemy, blasphemy laws, Pakistan, Charlie Hebdo..
The author gives an overview of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and argues that blaming ‘colonial era’ law is misleading, tracing how the 1860 Penal Code provision differed from later additions, and…
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Unreal Islam
The author argues that the claim that violent acts are not ‘real Islam’ is a benign ‘reverse takfir’ that feeds denial, and that Islam’s texts need reinterpretation by Muslims themselves,…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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