Islamic State
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Browncast: Abhinav Prakash and Karol Karpinski
Two BrownCast episodes: economist Karol Karpinski, who lived in Dhaka for two years, on economics and his brush with the Dhaka ISIS attack, and Abhinav Prakash on the farmer protests,…
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A collective religion in an individualistic age
Razib Khan argues that Kurds embracing Zoroastrianism show why people leaving Islam may reasonably return to ancestral faiths, treats the objection that ancestors weren’t really Hindu as pedantic, and notes…
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Pogrom in Kabul
Quotes a report of an Islamic State attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul that killed 25 worshippers, with the comment that attackers keep to their old script even during…
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Easter Attacks in Sri Lanka
A news report on coordinated Easter bombings at hotels and churches in Sri Lanka that killed at least 137, with an update that the New York Times was reporting Islamists.
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Islamist Terrorism versus Western Civ. Some Random Thoughts
After the Brussels attacks, the author argues that culture matters in the long run but policing, spying and arrests matter more in wartime, rejects Eurabia fears as silly, and reposts…
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Orlando. Stochastically predictable?
After the Orlando attack, the author argues that classical shariah-based Islam endorses violence against gays, yet practical tolerance of homosexuality in the Islamicate world was long very high, so a…
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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.
