Summary
25 Jun 2019
First published on: April 12, 2015
While the ban on Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is firmly looged in public memory as the first concession to undemocratic tendencies a closer look tells us that we have succumbed much earlier and to several authoritarian tendencies both majoritarian and emerging from within the minorities.
While the ban on Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is firmly looged in public memory as the first concession to undemocratic tendencies a closer look tells us that we have succumbed much earlier and to several authoritarian tendencies both majoritarian and emerging from within the minorities.
Summary
25 Jun 2019
First published on: April 12, 2015
While the ban on Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is firmly looged in public memory as the first concession to undemocratic tendencies a closer look tells us that we have succumbed much earlier and to several authoritarian tendencies both majoritarian and emerging from within the minorities.
While the ban on Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is firmly looged in public memory as the first concession to undemocratic tendencies a closer look tells us that we have succumbed much earlier and to several authoritarian tendencies both majoritarian and emerging from within the minorities.
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