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May 31, 2006
Uzma Aslam Khan on Cartoons and other Controversies
Uzma Aslam Khan author of the novels 'The Story of Noble Rot' (Penguin India 2001) and 'Trespassing' (Henry Holt USA 2004) writes on media hypocrisies and how elements in the East play into the stereotypes of the West.
...the 'protests' are simply a way of taking the bait. They give the US and UK governments exactly the advantage they seek, helping divide the world into 'West' and 'Islamic,' keeping the War on Terror burning. If the Muslim world were better educated and better fed, the cameras would expose the hypocrisies of the war-makers instead: international courts would condemn them, and the rest of us could live without the interference of self-appointed Powers and their two-faced freedom.read the rest here
Posted by Soniah Kamal at May 31, 2006 01:04 PM
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