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- If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
- In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
- Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which…
- If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without…
- If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems…
- If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland.…
- Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state,…
- Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't…
- What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh…
- It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
- I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally…
- In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle…
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