hijab
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FlyDie, Volume Two
Nineteen more FlyDie comments across six threads: the three pillars of caste, what the Mughals took from the land, how the Rig Veda got written, Kerala’s three-cornered trade, and Bollywood…
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Is Pakistan primitive?
An intolerant minority sets the menu for everyone, in a comment thread and in a country. For two months we moderated so carefully against Islamophobia that we let the confinement…
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The Veil We Will Not Wear
A Bahá’í response to the ‘saffron and crescent’ post, arguing that the Bahá’í position is a distinct civilisational stance that begins with Táhirih unveiling at Badasht in 1848, and that…
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A Republic Cannot Deport, Humiliate or “Outbreed” Its Own People
X.T.M argues that the reported deportation of an Indian family to Bangladesh without due process shows a state confusing language with nationality and religion with foreignness, and that citizenship is…
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Hijab: Between Revelation and Regulation
The author argues that the Qur’an never commands a garment called hijab, using the word for a barrier or curtain, and that it offers a theology of modesty, not a…
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Browncast : Karnataka hijab issue
Nachiketa introduces a podcast on Karnataka’s hijab issue as worth having despite digressions. He argues that India’s portrayal in global media must be confronted, blaming Indian-origin interlocutors more than foreign…
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Why I hate the Hijab
The author argues the hijab belongs to the Middle Eastern cultural matrix and is out of place for Desi Muslims, and criticises Western hijabi activists for ignoring Iranian women who…
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Mother India is Communal
Responding to Arfa Khanum Sherwani’s tweet calling ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ communal, the author finds the objection absurd and asks why such Muslim liberals police Indian society rather than challenge…
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Lazy Sunday – Pakistan has the best looking leader in the world now
A Sunday roundup of links on Imran Khan and Raza Rumi’s new book, with the author’s views on Pakistan’s leader, optics and hijab, a claim that Indira Gandhi was the…
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The Rise of the RSS
X.T.M, in a provocative aside, says India needs the BJP to manage minorities, lists changes he thinks Indian Muslims should make, and wonders whether liberal democracy fails with large minority…
