Can you share instances where issues in India have been brought up at all? Most of the content on this blog focus on Pakistan and issues within Muslims, particularly those of the subcontinent. Elsewhere issues within india have been dealt with exactly how I have mentioned.

I dont indulge in monkey balancing, the thing is many have already made up their mind about cultural factors having no role to play in muslim.bad behaviour, and have essentialized islam to basically what ISIS or Taliban do. Rather than seeing them as one way of practise based on cultural factors of the areas they are from.

Please share an instance where the Saffroniate have deflected remarks on flaws in their own and focused on the other?

Please re-read what I wrote. The ideology that the Crescentiate follow does question our right to existence. I never said that any commenter here has done that.

You do indulge in a fair bit of monkey balancing even when the facts suggest otherwise.

None of the commentator from the crescent here are questioning your right to existence. Making equialvalences with the commentators here and ISIS is quite bizarre.

Furthermore, in my engagements with people similar to the sadfroniate, they have shown more interest in faults and issues eith other religions rather than Islam even when things are brought up regarding their own, many would try to bring other religion in some way as a diversion.

XTN being sneaky I see like the Zionist you are

for a community that was at risk of genocide in the early ‘80’s and is still under severe persecution through to today.

Persecution does not happen in isolation, there is always a reason

Anyway now Iran is going after the traitors and collaborators with Zionist Israel.

When found they will be executed

I don’t think anybody in the Saffroniate defends outdated or bizarre practices in Hinduism. We defend our right to retaliate because the opposing ideology questions the very right of our existence.

You may think words don’t matter, but centuries of hate have translated into horrific crimes against pagans just because somebody claimed that idol worshippers are sub human do not deserve to live. The systematic rape and genocide of the Yazidis (the most recent) is precisely because of such weaponized hatred.

This is a ignorant comment

Exactly. To quote Hamid Dalwai, Hindu communalism is a reaction to Muslim communalism.

Though i disagree with Kabir’s arbitration on what constitutes Center right left etc – i think he is right in the essentials.

I would say all the 3 founders of the blog – Razib – Omar and XTM have “some” sympathies with Indian civilization which can be construed as soft Hindutva – whereas theyre not fans of TNT.
I would put myself in the same camp.

But its equally fair to that all sides are heard here !

friendly and warm and also more in tune with subcontinental values than for e.g., East Asians.
For a start Sri Lankans dont shit on the streets like Indian Values

Plus much more civic sense and hence cleaner cities. Still lot more to be desired.

Both of the above is because SL dont have caste.. Average middle class have no problem in joining in street clean ups

It is really not up for debate that the “civilization state” and “Bharat Mata ki Jai” are soft Hindutva positions. They are certainly not center-left positions and are not espoused by the Congress Party–the official center-left party in India.

I agree that the “Cresceniate” is stronger than it has been in the past. That is largely because I refused to accept soft Hindutva priors.

Anyway, as long as everyone is free to express their points of view, it’s fine.

Every forum has a bias. There is no problem owning yours.

Arguments like Skanda’s that BP has always been anti-Hindu by default are ridiculous. From the very beginning when Omar was much more active his main opponent was PakNationalism. Soft Hindutva was often given a pass.