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The truth about the sword

by CHANDRA MUZAFFAR JUST :: 22 September 2006  It was Albert Einstein who once noted that it is easier to split the atom than to crack a prejudice. One such … Continue reading

11 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Uri Avnery: Muhammad’s Sword

Avnery does an admirable job of contributing to the much needed dialogue of civilisations wth this historical corrective, demolishing the myth that Islam sanctions the spread of the faith by … Continue reading

25 September, 2006 · 1 Comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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