Taliban - Murtadd to Human

Taliban

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.

Words, propaganda and head of a newborn babe, Part 1

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Words, propaganda and head of a newborn babe, Part 1

It is possible that this was not a crime, but it was most certainly not a "botched surgery," as some are so anxious to declare.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 12

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 12

"a boot stamping on a human face, forever." — George Orwell.