Fatwa - Murtadd to Human

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Fatwa

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Misguiding the Perplexed - Part 2

Misguiding the Perplexed - Part 2

Had Salman Rushdie been Jewish, we would have welcomed him as an absolutely standard member of the Jewish community. It didn’t even register on the Richter scale in terms of Jewish challenge

Anatomy of a madness, Part 1

Anatomy of a madness, Part 1

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.