Sharia
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The saffron and the crescent – why BP matters
The author argues that candid comments from Pakistani Muslim commenters on interfaith marriage and idol worship expose a Hindu-Muslim mismatch in worldviews that Indian liberals avoid confronting, and cites Pew…
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Browncast: Election Time in Pakistan
A BrownCast in which the host and Maneesh Taneja talk informally about Pakistan’s upcoming elections and the general situation there, ending with Imran Khan’s latest conviction for marrying before the…
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Their Muslim Problem—And Ours
On the row over an advertisement showing an interfaith marriage, the author argues critics dodge its gendered side, since Islam allows Muslim men but not women to marry out, and…
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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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Massacre of the Innocents: Death Comes Again to Peshawar
A response to the Army Public School massacre in Peshawar, describing the attackers as trained men following rules they drew from sharia, and arguing the army has not abandoned its…
