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Fear in Finsbury Park
Muslim women wearing headscarves have been assaulted, Muslim men are routinely stopped and harassed.
Rafia Zakaria
‘Toxic masculinity’
The perpetrators of many recent terrorist attacks have been found to have had a history of domestic violence.
Fruitless days
When some folks see higher prices in Ramazan they feel morally entitled to punish those engaged in opportunism.
Protecting Muslim women
No one travelling on a bus in Karachi or Lahore will try to shut up a rage-filled man who is targeting two Christian...
In pursuit of solitude
An elegy for solitude is particularly relevant with the month of fasting around the corner.
Masculinity vs equality
With women pitted against women, their enslavement is perceived as acceptable, even recommended and praised.
Rape and ordinary men
Unlike in India, little attention has been paid to the issue of rape in Pakistan.
A sinister stage
‘Should’ is a limp and feeble word in Pakistan, one that follows catastrophe, provokes assurances, but never any action.
Xenophobia in Europe
What Jews suffered then, Muslims will suffer now. And as in the case of the Jewish population of Europe.
A woman in China
Animosity towards women can now be added to the list of things that the Pakistani and Chinese states appear to...
Intervention again
For many pro-intervention liberals, being the president of the US means being the president of the world.
The lure of past glory
The British attitude towards former colonies, and now Europe, is one of being inadequately rewarded for its magnanimity.
Journeys and bans
The electronics ban and the Muslims subject to it are a validation of the logic of collective blame.
Torture & young domestic workers
Those who are beating and torturing young girls in their homes will not spare the time to read this.
White and lovely
The curse of one’s lesser whiteness is one to be overcome, and entire social systems exist to help these delusions along
Men should cry
Crying women and cruel men are merely opposing sides of the same coin, their fates and futures inextricably intertwined.
In defence of women’s shelters
It is unfortunate that women’s shelters are viewed as a product of a Western feminism that contravenes culture.
New & unimproved ‘war on terror’
It will not be hard for a hawkish military adviser to convince Trump to invest in a huge and costly occupation of the
Banning the Brotherhood
One executive order under consideration by the new White House would designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist
What the seals say
The politics of Hindutva are not the only brand of politics implicated by the Indus seals.