British Pakistanis
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How Pakistan Became South Asia’s Reference Muslims
X.T.M argues that Partition cut one Muslim political world into three, and that Pakistan, having taken Urdu, now supplies the default picture of a South Asian Muslim. He calls this…
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Caste & British Pakistani Grooming Gangs
A thread on Pakistan and North India, then caste among British Pakistanis, ending with a pointed question linking a Mirpuri-origin community to child sexual abuse cases in Rotherham and Oxford,…
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Ancient Pakistanis were Hindu
Razib Khan reads a preprint on British Pakistanis as showing jati-like endogamy beginning 1,500 to 2,000 years ago, plus a later wave from cousin marriage, and argues this rejects the…
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Race and religion trump class
Focusing on victims of ‘Asian’ grooming gang scandals, the author argues they were treated as vulnerable and expendable because of class, and that police would have acted faster had the…
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The Tebbit test is racist
The author argues that the Tebbit test of whom British Asians support at cricket is coded racism, since a Welshman cheering Wales raises no eyebrows, and says Asians were never…
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Sajid Javid finally *owns* his Pakistaniness
Praises Sajid Javid’s Tory leadership campaign video on the immigrant experience, quoting a tweet by Tim Shipman, and says the author was finally moved because Javid owned up to his…
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I stand with Sajid on Pakistani Pedophilia
Backing Home Secretary Sajid Javid against Kamila Shamsie’s questioning, the author argues Pakistan’s lack of a sex offender register is not Britain’s problem. He asserts that most paedophiles in Britain…
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This is what won Brexit!
Posting a video of British Pakistanis chanting in an English airport, the author calls it shameful and argues such behaviour sets off native fears of being overwhelmed, which fed Brexit.…
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Yes they are Paki pedos & keep Hindu Temples, “Hindu”
Backing Sajid Javid’s condemnation of the convicted grooming gang, the author, a British Pakistani, says the label ‘Asian’ unfairly tars other minorities, that Punjabi would be more exact, and that…
