secularism
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Politics
Muslims are over-represented only in jails
Reacting to Saba Naqvi on the state of secularism, the poster argues that ideologies are more poisonous than events, naming the two-nation theory as the chief source, and that secularists…
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Politics
America ka matlab kya? (Christians are #1)
The poster, long an admirer of America’s church-state separation, argues that a recent Supreme Court ruling on official prayers favours Christianity and puts other faiths, including Hindu Americans, in a…
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“Muslims ought to be more communal”
A comment, with a news extract, on the Aam Aadmi Party’s Shazia Ilmi’s alleged remark that Muslims should be communal this time; the poster says Indian secularism treats majority unity…
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India- Hindu or Secular?
The poster argues India is neither simply Hindu nor secular, as Hindus are not a single bloc and ‘secular’ is used to play communities against each other, with a report…
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Politics
A muslim activist speaks his mind
A note on Tanweer Alam’s single-point agenda for Muslim voters in 2014, tactical voting to stop the BJP, with the poster disputing his view of Kerala and of secularism’s evolution.
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Politics
Comrade Prashad battles the (Gir) Lion
A note on Vijay Prashad’s appeal to secularism ahead of the 2014 vote, which the poster finds well argued but wrong to frame the choice as growth versus harmony, faulting…
