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... Iran to India and Pakistan , I have found people to be every bit as passionate for freedom as any Czech , Romanian , German , Hungarian , or Pole . How is freedom gained ? It is taken : never 5 fair-minded Muslims, of the sort I have ...
... Iran to India and Pakistan , I have found people to be every bit as passionate for freedom as any Czech , Romanian , German , Hungarian , or Pole . How is freedom gained ? It is taken : never 5 fair-minded Muslims, of the sort I have ...
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... Iran , too , the incident could only be properly understood when seen in the context of the country's internal political struggles . And in Britain , where secular and religious leaders had been vying for power in the community for over ...
... Iran , too , the incident could only be properly understood when seen in the context of the country's internal political struggles . And in Britain , where secular and religious leaders had been vying for power in the community for over ...
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... Iranian writer Ahmad Kasravi , stabbed to death by fanatics , and the Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz , often threatened but still , happily , with us . I am not the first artist to be accused of blasphemy and apostasy ; these ...
... Iranian writer Ahmad Kasravi , stabbed to death by fanatics , and the Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz , often threatened but still , happily , with us . I am not the first artist to be accused of blasphemy and apostasy ; these ...
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admitting three pagan Arabian Sea archangels broken an Islamic broken faith back brothel called Jahilia Chamcha disputes about rules divines may insist doubt in dreams dream-figures he conjures dream-religion's aim dreams which persecute expressed doubts contribute extreme Muslim threats faith-shaking allegations given unquestioning respect homosexuality infect his daytimes insult and abuse intercessory level Islamic law least worth pointing Mahound Master and Margarita Mecca Sharif moment of doubt Muhammad's companion Salman Muhammad's revelation seemed mullahs Muslim world nocturnal retribution novel novel's dream-version obscene a language pagan and female Party doesn't ask persecute a dreamer place daily throughout portray a soul questions and faith-shaking Qur'an rejecting these goddesses rejection has implications religion's attitude repudiated these verses Rushdie Saladin Salman Rushdie Salman the Persian Satanic Verses sequence happens late soul in crisis tormenting the dreamer validity of religion's vilify or disprove visions of scepticism vivid the doubts waking Gibreel wish female children woman's testimony worth
References to this book
Laying the Ladder Down: The Emergence of Cultural Holism Betty Jean Craige No preview available - 1992 |