fatwa | fatwa
Jun.07.2012
He is the contradiction of his own statement. Salman Rushdie at the Hay Festival in Wales is still "joking" about a two-decade-old fatwa. Yet, he maintains:
"The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last. It's the people who...
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Nov.18.2009
On February 28, 1989, Cody's was bombed. I remember being awakened by the police who informed me that a fire bomb had been thrown through the window of Cody's. The fire department had broken into the store putting out the fire. The firemen's efforts at containment did considerably more damage than...
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Aug.23.2009
Fatwa is a dirty word in the west. In truth, nothing more menacing than a scholar’s opinion on religious law, pundits frequently appear to presume that it’s a death sentence for blasphemy, usually one delivered by some slavering psychotic with one eye missing and a hook for a hand the better to...
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