Islamophobia

Why do nonmulims mistreat muslims so much?

Suggests non-Muslims mistreat Muslims largely because they do not understand Islam or Muslims, and proposes that everyone watch a Tarek Fatah video closely, praising its humour.

AnAn17 January 201819 comments
Why nonmuslims treat muslims so badly?

In an introductory post, anan proposes a series asking why non-Muslims treat Muslims so badly, citing a video on the UK’s treatment of British Muslims and Crown Prosecution Service figures…

AnAn1 December 201721 comments
The issue is how you experience Islam

Responding to Sadiq Khan’s statement that a terror attack has nothing to do with his Islam, the author argues most non-Muslims know Muslims only through terrorism, so such acts become…

Razib Khan5 June 20173 comments
Trial by Trump: Testing Times for the Republican Party

The author reads Trump’s call to keep Muslims out of the United States as a test of character for the Republican Party, asking whether the party of Lincoln will still…

Brown Pundits Archive9 December 20150 comments
Spontaneous Jihad Syndrome

Promoting a comment from the Fort Hood thread, the author argues that so-called spontaneous jihad has warning signs, that most Muslims are not at risk, but that a lonely misfit’s…

BP Admin Team · opened by Brown Pundits Archive30 November 20150 comments
Islam, ISIS and the Dream of the Blue Flower

Responding to Graeme Wood’s Atlantic argument that the Islamic State is Islamic, the author says it does not smear Muslims but notes ISIS acts have support in classical texts, then…

BP Admin Team · opened by Brown Pundits Archive2 March 20150 comments
Jihadi Death Row (no end in sight)

A Guardian live blog on the beheading of Steven Sotloff, with comment that governments must understand and neutralise jihadist ideology among Western youths.

Brown Pundits Archive3 September 20140 comments
I am Jamal Osman (and I am not a terrorist)

Quoting British-Somali journalist Jamal Osman on being treated as an asylum seeker despite his passport, the poster argues Osama’s legacy is a wedge between Muslims and the world, and condemns…

Brown Pundits Archive28 May 20140 comments
Every smile you fake (they are watching you)

The poster says Muslim Americans live under a presumption of guilt, with an excerpt from Arun Kundnani on the effects of mass surveillance on them.

Brown Pundits Archive28 March 20140 comments