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There is a need for blasphemy

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 10, 2012
  • 1 Comments
  • blasphemy, Day of Agreement, free expression, Rushdie
In the recent BBC documentary on The Fatwa: Salman Rushdie’s Story, writer Hanif Kureishi says: Rushdie speaks in the book for Muslims. This is an extremely important book. He speaks for their doubts. He speaks the bits of them that they actually think and feel sometimes – do I really believe in all this stuff […]
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Facebook and Salman Rushdie

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 14, 2011
  • 1 Comments
  • censorship, facebook, Rushdie
Ophelia Benson reports that Facebook de-activated Salman Rushdie’s account but has now re-activated it, though it initially asked him to call himself Ahmed Rushdie. I’m not surprised.
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