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'What Must be Said' to unmask hypocrisy?
News, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 15/04/2012
» In 1988, the Booker Prize-winning British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie published a novel entitled The Satanic Verses. Many Muslim groups, highly offended by what they perceived to be its defamatory references to the Prophet Mohammed, organised global protests. The Iranian government also issued a fatwa against him, but later rescinded it.
Masters of finance and war will fall together
News, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 18/03/2012
» Last Sunday's massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a US army sergeant and Wednesday's farewell to arms by a departing Goldman Sachs executive may appear to be totally separate events, but perhaps are interconnected in more ways than one might think.