Also published on Wordpress. From time to time, when Muslims are mentioned in online discourses, I see comments like this: “If Muslim extremists want to behead you, the moderates want the extremists to behead you!” This obviously scorn-worthy opinion reminds me of a recent blogpost I made, which talks about…

Also published on Wordpress. Neutrality is all about not taking sides. Whether it is about the tastiness of pineapple pizza or the justifiability of the holocaust (do I need to explain why it is unjustified?), you don’t take sides regardless of the facts each side provides. Objectivity is all about…

Also published on Wordpress. If you visit other countries as a tourist, do you go to the tourist traps or do you go to where the locals at and interact with them? If you can speak a foreign language, is your fluency high or is it only enough to order…

Also published on Wordpress. If I ask you what bigotry is, I am sure your answer would be something like, “the demonisation of (an) entire group(s)”. If I ask you what extremism is, I am sure yours would be something like, “the embrace of extreme views and/or actions”. Everyone can…

Also published on Wordpress. If I ask you to define it, I am certain your answer would be something like “demonisation of (an) entire religious group(s)”. That should be clear-cut enough. But, of course, every human has their own thoughts, even wrong ones. If someone thinks you and “your people”…

Also published on Wordpress. I first encountered that remark in a video by Extra Credit, a Youtube channel partially dedicated to video games. At first, I found it off-putting. I thought it was pretentious and sanctimonious. I thought they were trying too hard to sound socially-conscious. I remember that people…

Also published on Wordpress. This is one of those petty blogposts of mine, in which I write them as responses to specific individuals. Spite is one of my life fuels. There are many Indonesians who believe our country has nothing exciting to offer. This combination of ignorance and self-deprecation is…

Also published on Wordpress. I have made a similar blogpost about Islam and the Muslim world, as I have made so many non-Muslims who love Islamplaining and Muslimplaining things to me, someone who was born and raised as a Muslim in a Muslim-majority country. But, to a lesser extent, I…

Also published on Wordpress. In fact, as a Muslim, I find them nauseating nowadays. I used to relish on them. I used to believe those feelgood stories would help tackling anti-Muslim bigotry; even if they didn’t, they would give the bigots the finger. But, slowly, I started to feel uneasy…