Word: salman
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...SENTENCED. SALMAN KHAN, 40, Bollywood actor known for his romantic leading roles; to five years in prison for killing an endangered species of gazelle during a 1998 hunting trip; in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Khan was freed on bail pending his appeal...
...showed in the death threats against author Salman Rushdie and a portion of the murder of director Theo Van Gogh, a portion of the Muslim world has once again demonstrated its intolerance for free speech and democratic pluralism—an intolerance that reiterates the gaping incompatibility between dogmatic religion and democratic dissent. After the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ran a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed dressed as a suicide bomber, many Muslims rose up in arms, setting embassies in Beirut and Damascus ablaze, storming the European Union (EU) office in Gaza, boycotting Danish products or withdrawing their ambassadors...
...threateningly advocate terror, without creating vague crimes that could give prosecutors a fishing license. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the human-rights group Liberty, thinks a better solution is to enlist moderate Muslims in the war on terrorism through "a universal human-rights framework." That means, she says, "Salman Rushdie should be free to write books they might not like; but also that Muslim women should be free to wear the veil too. When applied evenhandedly, free speech is not the enemy of minorities, it's their protection." So does that mean the answer to the tensions free speech...
Excuse me? In fact, the opposite is the case. The Muslim world needs to do something to appease the West. Since Ayatullah Khomeini declared a death sentence against Salman Rushdie for how he depicted Muhammad in his book The Satanic Verses, Islamic radicals have been essentially threatening the free discussion of their religion and politics in the West. Rushdie escaped with his life. But Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch politician who stood up against Muslim immigrant hostility to equality for women and gays, was murdered on the street. Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who offended strict Muslims, was killed thereafter...
...what Indian financial and managerial acumen can achieve, given the right global opportunities. Perhaps. But nobody asks this: Would Mittal have been as successful if he had remained in India? Why do so many of our success stories - from conductor Zubin Mehta to economist Amartya Sen to author Salman Rushdie - live abroad? Is there something about the Indian environment that discourages achievement? Whenever globally successful businessmen have come back home, they have failed to replicate their international record. Even the Mittals are far more successful abroad than they are in India. Some of this has to do with the mind...