Islamophobia
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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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Does the average muslim ‘dislike hindus’?
RecoveringNewsJunkie rejects a commenter’s claim that the average Muslim dislikes Hindus. The post argues that treating hundreds of millions as one mindset ignores regional and class differences, that political and…
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Double Standards, Modi’s Gamble, and Why Ramadan Gets It Right
X.T.M argues that applying a deconstructive lens to Hinduism but not Islam is asymmetric, citing Manu Pillai’s book. The post also treats Pakistan’s literacy gap and Modi’s strategy, and ends…
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F*ck Your Algorithm, My People Are Still Colonised
X.T.M argues that a Google Gemini summary on French West Africa repeats colonial language, framing Islam as an obstacle to a civilising mission. He calls this Islamophobia by default and…
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Enough with the
Kabir says he is not inventing victimhood but calling out anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim bias among BP’s commenters, and asks why no Indian Muslims comment here.
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On Islamism, the Oneness of Mankind, and the Burden of Public Bahá’ís
The author argues that Islamism is a loaded term in Western discourse, and that a prominent British Bahá’í comedian’s use of it fell short of the Bahá’í principle of oneness…
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The Ilhan Omar of Brown Pundits
The author likens the commenter Kabir to Ilhan Omar: often right but polarising, and good for traffic. He argues principle needs pragmatism, that nonviolent resistance outlasts shrillness, and that the…
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Hinduphobia does not exist?
A one-line quotation in which Kabir states that ‘Hinduphobia’ does not exist, that Islamophobia is real, and that the two are not the same.
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Beards, Bigotry and Burqas
Recalling the jovial Sardar caricature of 1990s Indian entertainment, the author contrasts it with the bearded-Muslim imagery he grew up with, including a local mural, and reflects on how such…
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Extraction, a Bangladeshi view
Sharing a Bangladeshi viewer’s review of the film Extraction, which finds it anti-Bangladeshi and Islamophobic, the author disagrees, arguing the film exists in a world without religion and that cultural…
