25 books
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6 voters
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Permanent and temporary marriages are morally equal. Khomeini gives permanent and non-permanent marriages equal status and includes no moral distinction between the two.
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― Survey of Shia Marriage in Iran: Based on literature, media and personal interviews
― Survey of Shia Marriage in Iran: Based on literature, media and personal interviews
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When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
