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The Management of Savagery
Ahmed Humayun, an analyst at the "Institute of Social Policy and Understanding" has a post up about the "management of savagery", a central text in the Islamist militant movement.Read the whole thing...
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Sights & sounds of Cambodia
I just tweeted a few photos of Angkor Wat- https://twitter.com/zacharylatif/status/561025346586169344.It really is a spectacular complex and the Khmer are the ultimate originators of the Indo-Chinese...
View ArticleThe Pakistan Army 2014-15
Mr Hamid Hussein, one of the best and most well-informed commentators on the Pakistan army (and the British Indian army and it's other daughter armies) has sent in this piece:Year in Review and Year...
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Shia-killing in Pakistan: Background and Predictions
In the latest gruesome attack on the Shia community in Pakistan a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded ImambaRa (Shia mosque) and killed over 60 people, including several young children. People...
View ArticleColonialism has a lot to answer for.
Hello from Phnom Penh.It's interesting to note that in SE Asia the country that has thrived throughout is the one that kept its independence (however nominal), the Kingdom of Siam (Thailand).
View ArticleWhy are all South Asian American websites so Left?
Any thoughts? It's a consistent tendency that explicitly South Asian (de facto Indian) websites tend to have a Left inflection. This means that they're soaked in critical race theory assumptions, but...
View ArticleVictimhood, Desi Post-Marxists, Social Justice, Racism and other random thoughts
Just some random thoughts trigerred by a question that Razib asked and a post on FB.The question:"Why are all South Asian American websites so Left?Any thoughts? It's a consistent tendency that...
View ArticleCaste "privilege", the Americal Dalit speaks
Over at The Aerogram there is an interesting piece up, Caste Privilege 101: A Primer for the Privileged. The main downside of the piece is that it is standard post-colonial "social justice warrior"...
View ArticleIndian Troops in East Africa
As usual, a post from Hamid Hussein, this time about the British Indian army in East Africa, with some comments about "all Muslim regiments' and neo-orientalist claptrap about the Pakhtoons and the...
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Is Islam a Religion of the Book?
Razib put up an interesting post on this topic on his blog . I think his point is that no religion is a "religion of the book". People make the religion and they remake it as time demands. Messily and...
View ArticleThe signs when you become white
(1.) you actually start becoming punctual(2.) your schedule runs months into advance(3.) you stop socialising nearly as much(4.) you start saying Christ inadvertently(5.) when you and your other half...
View ArticleEnd of the Muslim Brotherhood
This is an old post and I would probably change some things now (and in fact, will change some things soon once I do a new post) But this was lost when the old Brownpundits crashed and I wanted to...
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A Trip to Pakistan
A heartfelt post consisting only of pictures and Urdu verses from Dr Hamid Hussain (about his latest trip to Pakistan). My recent trip to Pakistan was in the aftermath of the December tragedy in...
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Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan and Sam Manekshaw (and a comment from Major Agha Amin)
A post from Dr Hamid Hussain. A (typically earthy) comment from military historian Major Agha Amin follows below Dr Hamid Hussain's post.Dear Sir;A while ago, many officers asked about the...
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Another Angry Voice on Podemos
Why the EU is damned to doomOn facebook I follow the extreme left page, Another Angry Voice, and they have a small piece on Podemos, the new left-wing party that's virulently growing in Spain (even...
View ArticleSometimes the Bible just gets it right
I can't claim to have read the Bible, the only books I read are book club prescribed ones and Holy Books haven't yet come onto the selection.But I always turn back to my favorite chapter. To every...
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Islam, ISIS and the Dream of the Blue Flower
First published on 3quarksdaily.comA few days ago, Graeme Wood wrote a piece in the Atlantic that has generated a lot of buzz (and controversy). In this article he noted that:"The reality is that the...
View ArticleThis is a rape culture
I'm not a big fan of the latest and newest terminologies that are bandied about by "social justice warrior" types. The issue is not the terminology taken literally, but its context. In the United...
View ArticleNew Pundits- Asians can never be upper-class?
My friend, Shoaib, and I have started a new blog called New Pundits. The main advantage of NP is that it's WordPress, which I prefer much more to Blogger. At any rate NP is still very much in it's...
View ArticleEmpower women; let them marry out of their clan & race
I have excerpted several paragraphs (after the jump) of this excellent article where black women need to follow the footsteps of Asian women and start intermarrying at much higher levels.Of course...
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