Short note and link
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BP may have just jumped the shark
X.T.M mocks a claim that a Brahmin calling someone sub-human is casteist, arguing that an insult is an insult and that caste-specific moral disclaimers amount to moral policing.
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Love Jihad Zohran
X.T.M jokes that Zohran Mamdani is a product of ‘Love Jihad’, citing an Indian Eye interview where Mamdani described growing up in an interfaith family.
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Islam the Religion of Peace part ii
Short post reproducing a news report of a rail worker seriously injured while shielding passengers from a knife attacker on a Doncaster to London train, with a line noting the…
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Caste, Civilisation, and the Courage to Own It
A short personal reply arguing that the author sees nothing wrong with Akhand Bharat or a broader Dharmic civilisation, that questioning caste identities should not be taboo, and that he…
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An Honor-able Society
Reproduces Tribune and Telegraph reports on a Lahore mother who police say burned her daughter alive for marrying by choice, with other recent cases, a government inquiry and the Human…
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Scott Atran: Parochial Anthropologist
A link, posted without comment, to an Aeon essay by Scott Atran arguing that ISIS is a world-altering revolution born of danger and death, brotherhood and joy.
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Things Will Get Worse..
Written on the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack, warning that things will get worse, and quoting Salman Rushdie’s tweet defending satire and rejecting ‘respect for religion’ as code for…
