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Why do Muslims React More to France Than to China?
After two beheading attacks in France, the author asks why Muslim anger over perceived blasphemy is directed at France rather than China, and argues Western leaders and outlets avoid crossing…
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Book Review: Friendly Fire by Ami Ayalon
Hamid Hussain reviews Ami Ayalon’s Friendly Fire, part autobiography and part account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which the former Israeli naval and security chief argues that a two-state solution…
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A Hindu nationalist in the House?
The author calls a Slate article on Democratic House candidate Preston Kulkarni a hit piece, arguing his views on Indian politics are unimportant to suburban Houston voters, that demands for…
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Caste in 2nd Generation American Diaspora
Writing as a second-generation Indian American, the author says caste hardly features for their generation apart from three exceptions they name, ‘SJW Brahmins’, ‘victim card’ Dalits and Jatts, doubts that…
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Comments!
The poster notes that over 20,000 people read the site monthly and its comment threads are lively, and asks readers how to maintain this, as he moderates little but worries…
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Open Thread – 10/24/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 24 October 2020: notes on a podcast with Fred Martin on the killing of Samuel Paty, Islam and Islamism in France and France-US differences on race, plus the…
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Not all societies are identical
Responding to Hindu Right questions about why liberals tolerate France’s crackdown on Muslims after Samuel Paty’s murder, the author argues that nations differ historically, contrasting France’s individual-only emancipation and nation-building…
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Tibeto-Burmans, Munda, and Bengalis
A newly published Chaubey lab paper shows a clear genetic difference between Tibeto-Burmans and Munda, which the poster takes to confirm that East Asian admixture in Bengalis was not Munda,…
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Scale – In Satyagraha, Societies, and Statecraft
Drawing on Nassim Taleb’s idea of scale, the author argues that kindness and Gandhian satyagraha work best at small scale, while in societies and geopolitics might towers over magnanimity, which…
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Run up to the Kashmir War of 1947-48, Pakistani POV
Major Amin argues Pakistan showed duplicity over Mountbatten’s formula on princely states, making the Maharaja of Kashmir’s accession to India legitimate, calls Nehru’s agreement to a plebiscite a blunder, and…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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