2018

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White presenting, women presenting, person defends Dharmic terminology from white people

Razib Khan mocks a tweet in which white-presenting people defend Dharmic terminology, agreeing that Hindu belief is sometimes belittled as ‘mythology’ but arguing such public posturing is more about the…

Razib Khan10 April 201834 comments
Moneylenders & Indian farmers

X.T.M shares his father-in-law’s trade correspondence on Indian agriculture: fragmented smallholdings, a Green Revolution that favoured rice and wheat, weekly grain markets and exploitative moneylenders, with farm debt and suicides…

X.T.M10 April 20181 comment
The Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case

A reposted Friday Times review of Hassan Zaheer’s book on the 1951 Rawalpindi Conspiracy, a military plot against Pakistan’s civilian government that grew out of discontent after the first Kashmir…

AbdulMajeed Abid9 April 20180 comments
Kashmiri man weds Dalit woman

A link to an NDTV story on a Kashmiri man marrying a Dalit woman, with X.T.M’s comment on inter-community marriage trends in India.

X.T.M9 April 201817 comments
Arabic and Koran lessons after school in Sri Lanka

The poster repeats his own comment that Muslim boys in his Sri Lankan village spend two hours a day at the mosque learning Arabic and the Quran, and worries about…

sbarrkum7 April 201814 comments
Early Indian Islamists (An Overview)

An overview of early Indian Islamists argues that the Raja of Mahmudabad, a Muslim League leader and practising Shia, helped popularise Islamist ideas by presenting Pakistan as a project for…

AbdulMajeed Abid6 April 20180 comments
A Tale of Two countries

A review essay on books by Husain Haqqani and Myra Macdonald argues that Pakistan’s Islamic identity, defined against secular India, has shaped its foreign policy, and that India is now…

AbdulMajeed Abid6 April 201827 comments
artilce in outlook on Islam & reform

A quoted Outlook extract in which Shajahan Madampat argues that God’s grant of full freedom of action to Satan in the Quran is a model Muslims should follow for freedom…

Bharata Bharatavanshi5 April 20180 comments
Ambedkar, Ramanuja and Hope in Hinduism

A comment-style post arguing that Ambedkar did not see Hinduism as hopeless, that Hindu thinkers could criticise caste, and that the coming of Islam hindered India’s moral development.

Bharata Bharatavanshi5 April 20180 comments
If the House of Islam were a family

X.T.M offers a satirical family portrait of the Islamic world, casting Arabs as an ailing patriarch, Iran as a bitter bride, Turks as a general and Pakistan as an insecure…

X.T.M4 April 20185 comments