Hezbollah - Murtadd to Human

Hezbollah

A collection of 3 posts

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.

The infatuation with Mansour Abbas: déjà vu all over again

The infatuation with Mansour Abbas: déjà vu all over again

Mansour Abbas has been praised to the rafters for his mendacious Holocaust Remembrance speech before the Knesset in April 2020, in which everyone heard only what they wanted to hear and ignored what they didn't want to hear.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 5

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 5

Were they not in such a parlous state, they would see that Zemmour is their very last hope to stop the slide towards the stark alternatives of either civil war or barbarism