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The worst of non-Muslims convert to Islam, the best of Muslims leave Islam. Part 1

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The worst of non-Muslims convert to Islam, the best of Muslims leave Islam. Part 1

"We are a people incapable of comprehending sarcasm, since it requires a bit of thinking and intellectualising. And we read with great speed and a hopeful eye, not an eye for truth or reality. Some of us are struck with blindness when we read things that go against our hopes."

Anatomy of a madness, Part 3

Anatomy of a madness, Part 3

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.