Middle East and the Gulf

Popcorn + missiles = funtimes

Reacting to reports of Israelis watching Gaza blasts from a hilltop with popcorn, the poster says war brutalises civilians, but argues the Muslim world should also think hard about how…

Brown Pundits Archive15 July 20140 comments
The Caliphate turns radioactive (literally)

A report that Iraqi insurgents seized nuclear material at Mosul University, with the poster’s grim comment on nuclear danger in the Middle East and South Asia.

Brown Pundits Archive12 July 20140 comments
Arab spring chickens come to India

Reading a food history that says Islam helped spread Indian crops such as rice, sugarcane and citrus westward, the author celebrates food as a good thing, then turns to teenage…

Brown Pundits Archive7 July 20140 comments
“Death was so close to us”

After the Kerala nurses returned from Iraq with debts and no jobs, the author argues India needs ten times more doctors and nurses, questions why AIIMS-style colleges took 65 years,…

Brown Pundits Archive7 July 20140 comments
The Mosques of Mosul (no more)

Reports that Islamist militants destroyed mosques and shrines in Nineveh, with the poster’s comment that Muslims are persecuted for being the wrong sort of Muslim.

Brown Pundits Archive6 July 20140 comments
Home free!!!!

The poster ironically thanks the ISIS Caliphate for freeing 46 Kerala nurses held in Iraq, hopes India now establishes relations with such kind people, and credits officials across Congress and…

Brown Pundits Archive4 July 20140 comments
The Kerala girls….probably beyond help

On the Kerala nurses kidnapped to Mosul, the poster doubts the Caliphate will release them, urges India’s foreign ministry to think differently, and suggests sending Sunni leaders and the Owaisi…

Brown Pundits Archive3 July 20140 comments
Ramazan around the world

Using reports of Uighurs pressed to eat during Ramadan, a French burqa ban upheld in court and Saudi punishments for eating in public, the post asks whether Pakistani commenters who…

Brown Pundits Archive2 July 20140 comments
Iraqis screwed but Khilafah restored

On ISIS renaming itself Islamic State and declaring a caliphate under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the post laments the damage to Iraq and Syria, and notes possible jihadist rivalries, with tweets…

Brown Pundits Archive30 June 20140 comments
Indian Navy on watch at the Gates of Hell

As Indian warships move to the Persian Gulf and evacuations loom, the post notes the danger to Indian workers in Iraq, recalls earlier mass evacuations from Libya and Lebanon, and…

Brown Pundits Archive29 June 20140 comments