Because I’m am open-minded person many of my white liberal friends express to me their true views of Islam. Progressives do a lot of ‘solidarity’ with Muslims, but privately many think Islam is a regressive religion. Which, on the whole, is true.
But this is a general phenomenon. People will tell me things they might not tell others because I don’t judge (unless they are stupid). A friend who is a big player in Democratic and progressive politics has been trying to get a sense of why India has caste, and other regions do not. I can’t give him a good explanation.
Ultimately though, he concludes from the existence of caste that Hinduism is a messed up religion
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Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary.
Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.
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Because I’m am open-minded person many of my white liberal friends express to me their true views of Islam. Progressives do a lot of ‘solidarity’ with Muslims, but privately many think Islam is a regressive religion. Which, on the whole, is true.