religious minorities
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Open Thread: From Floods to LaBal
Open thread opening with Sri Lanka’s severe flooding, then Pakistan’s minority rights bill, Sam Dalrymple on Lahore and Delhi, Ella Wadia’s debut at LaBal, AOC on an AI bubble, a…
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Christian conversions in rural India
Razib Khan quotes a New York Times report on mob attacks and conversion-law arrests of Christians in India, reads it sceptically as a Cow Belt, Dalit-convert phenomenon, notes Hindus are…
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Hindu conversions to Islam in Pakistan
Razib Khan, citing a news report, argues that conversions of poor Hindus in rural Sindh, which is about 10% Hindu, are better explained by desperation and discrimination than by pure…
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On Being Hindu in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Commenting on halted construction of an Islamabad Hindu temple, Razib Khan argues the objection fits historical Islamic norms of tolerating but not encouraging minorities, and that Hinduism is seen as…
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Pakistani Christian teen ‘raped, forcibly converted to Islam’
An extract from a ucanews.com report in which a 15-year-old Christian girl in Karachi says she was raped, forcibly converted to Islam and married off, with a note that about…
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This is why Pakistan is a shit country-
Prompted by restaurants closed in Lahore during Ramadan, the author calls Pakistan an oppressive society, argues that blaming Zia ul-Haq misses the nature of Pakistan’s Islam, and claims religion there…
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Bring the Kalash to Ladakh!
Following a Twitter suggestion, the author proposes that the Kalash be allowed to relocate to Ladakh, a similar ecosystem with less pressure to assimilate, as a constructive step for a…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 24: Shadi Hamid, American politics, Egyptian politics, being online
The host talks to Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution, author of Islamic Exceptionalism, about religious minorities in Egypt, being politically heterodox online, and the role of religion in his…
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Pakistani Perfidy & The Nehruvian Deep State
Zach cites a Pakistani Christian’s account of a Hindu family barred from buying a flat to argue that Pakistani minorities face everyday discrimination, and presses liberal Pakistanis to explain it.…
