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Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide

Book description: The fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the 2005 Danish cartoon fracas awakened many people to the potency of blasphemy accusations in the Muslim world. Accusations and charges such as “blasphemy,” “apostasy,” “insulting Islam,” or “hurting Muslims’ religious feelings” … Continue reading

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I’m Not Selfish, I Just Love Literature

I like this remark by V.S. Naipaul: "It’s the thing about the work. If you are travelling for material or to write a book, it isn’t that you are self-centered, it is that you are with the work. You are … Continue reading

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Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters

Marc B. Shapiro has a new book out: "Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters"   Included in the book is a short "Note on Maimonides and Muhammad" following censorship that occurred in his "Islam and the Halakhah," Judaism 42:3 (Summer … Continue reading

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