Ummah
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India Has Sacred Land. Pakistan Has Sacred Purpose. The Comment Section Needs Neither.
X.T.M asks commenters to respect the rules, invites a fair-minded volunteer moderator and explains why BB was given authorship. He adds that India has sacred geography while Pakistan was founded…
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Links on My Browser Right Now – Open Thread
Open thread listing articles the author is reading, from Foreign Affairs on the Middle East to a piece on the post-literate society, with reflections on the Ummah, the Satanic Verses…
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The Honey Trap of the Ummah:
X.T.M argues that a dispute with commenters exposes the fault lines in the India–Pakistan–Muslim triad. He contends that Indian minorities have accepted an unspoken compact of living within an increasingly…
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Cultural evolution at work!
Quoting a New York Times report on clerics resisting limits on Friday prayers in Pakistan, the author argues that Islam’s perceived unitary cohesion, which some Hindu nationalists envy, can have…
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The Ummah for we, but not for thee
The author argues that Pakistanis and other South Asian Muslims feel closer to Arabs and Iranians than those ‘fellow Muslims’ feel to them, and that Saudi Arabia cannot ignore India’s…
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Islam encourages rage-
Reacting to a video of a drink thrown at Tommy Robinson, the author argues that violent rage is a feature of the Ummah, says Muslim men are unused to challenge…
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Hinduism was not invented by the British (or Muslims)
Disagreeing with the view that Hindu identity was manufactured by colonialism or by Muslims, the author argues Megasthenes, al-Biruni and Faxian already saw Indians as a distinct people, and that…
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If the House of Islam were a family
X.T.M offers a satirical family portrait of the Islamic world, casting Arabs as an ailing patriarch, Iran as a bitter bride, Turks as a general and Pakistan as an insecure…
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Do Muslim refugees have a right to Australia?
X.T.M argues Australia is entitled to protect its borders, that Muslim refugees should be hosted by neighbouring countries and the wider Ummah, and that the West should not intervene as…
