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“Turki al Bin ‘ali does the Islamic equivalent of smashing an electric guitar and kicking over an amplifier every time he steps up to the minbar.”
― The Way of the Strangers
― The Way of the Strangers
“Impelled by the notions that science is oppression and criticism is violence, the central regulation of debate and inquiry is returning to respectability—this time in a humanitarian disguise.”
― Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
― Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
“I heard, when I was in Delhi, that the men of the West are studying the construction of the atom, and have guessed at the force imprisoned in it. Wait until they have learned how to explode the atom, and then see what they will do to one another.”
― Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley
― Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley
“Patricia Crone famously quipped that, with regard to Muhammad's trade journeys in sīrah-maghāzī literature, "What the [Arabic] sources offer are fifteen equally fictitious versions of an event that never took place.”
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
“And as if blowing it up, flooding it, and keeping it behind the klyon wasn't enough, State Security special forces patrolled the area until 1989. Some locals say there was an additional 'live fence' of thousands of vipers specially bred for this purpose by Uzbeks along the southern Black Sea, under something called decree number 56. Why Uzbeks? Why vipers? Did decree 56 read: 'Let us fulfil the five-year snake plan in one year'?”
― Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
― Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
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