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/ 14 October 2011
This week’s violence in Cairo marks an ominous development in the story of Egypt’s unfinished revolution.
<em>William Dalrymple</em> recalls a festival in India where Hindus celebrate a Muslim warrior.
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/ 28 September 2007
Much Western journalism in the six years since 9/11 has concentrated on terrorist groups, jihadis and suicide bombers. But while the threat of violence remains very real, those commentators who have compared what they ignorantly call ”Islamo- fascism” to the Nazis are guilty of hysteria: the differences in relative power and military capability are too great for the comparison to be valid, writes William Dalrymple.
A mid all the hoopla surrounding the 60th anniversary of Indian independence, almost nothing has been heard from Pakistan, which also turned 60 recently. Nothing, that is, if you discount the low rumble of suicide bombings, the noise of automatic weapons storming the Red Mosque and the creak of slowly collapsing dictatorships.