The most exhausting thing about sectarian Islam in South Asia is not disagreement itself, because disagreement is natural, sometimes necessary, and often intellectually productive. The real rot begins when disagreement hardens into camp protection, when the need to shield inherited prestige becomes stronger than the duty to speak plainly, and when every ugly sentence preserved in a legacy text is defended not because it is convincing but because admitting its ugliness would puncture the myth of infallible heroes. That is how theological traditions decay. Not by arguing too much, but by refusing to argue honestly once camp identity takes over.









































