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June 27, 2017 edition

People are never as enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."
Simonini says this with certainty, but we do not have to believe it. He is just a fictitious character in Umberto Eco's novel The Prague Cemetery, someone who lives from lies and falsehood.

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June 20, 2017 edition

Fire. Oil. Straw. These three inexpensive things were what 'Ayn al-Qudt wanted for his death sentence to be carried outperhaps as a kind of simple delivery to the world of martyrs. It seems he did not want to leave the world with any fanfare of glory. The death of a Sufi, even when murdered, was a simple dispersal to the bosom of God.

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June 13, 2017 edition

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June 6, 2017 edition

For Father Magnis-Suseno
Who is Ahok? Who is X? And Y? How do you determine them?
I am reminded of Groucho Marx. When someone asked the comedian to explain his identity, he replied, 'I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.'

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May 30, 2017 edition

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May 23, 2017 edition

Ahok is, was, will be. In different places, in other times, but whenever we realize that injustice has succeeded in sentencing an innocent person, when politics, hatred and prejudice are called 'judge'.

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May 16, 2017 edition

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