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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      2. In the wake of Mother Teresa's canonization, many people are bringing up the best anti-Teresa polemic, Hitchens' Missionary Position

      1 reply 7 retweets 31 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      3. Like many people, I was much taken with The Missionary Position when it first came out. Two-thirds of it are a brillian debunking.

      4 replies 6 retweets 21 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      4. Where Missionary Position works best is destroying media myths around Teresa (stuff on that fraud Malcolm Muggeridge are great).

      3 replies 8 retweets 37 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      5. And Hitchens pointedly calls attention to stuff sentimental centrist media avoids: Teresa's anti-contraceptive stance & sqalid politics

      3 replies 9 retweets 47 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      6. Where the Missionary Position falls apart is that to decisively make case Hitchens has to show Teresa's hospitals were no good.

      3 replies 12 retweets 26 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      7. Hitchens makes a few gestures in that direction with second hand reports but as so often doesn't do reporting to seal his case.

      2 replies 11 retweets 27 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      8. Allied with lack of reporting is general absence of Indian voices. Teresa lived most of her life in India & was polarizing figure.

      3 replies 12 retweets 47 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      9. Reason I could never fully accept Hitchens was I knew that although she was controversial, Teresa had many non-Catholic admirers in India

      5 replies 10 retweets 45 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      10. When Teresa died, the government of India declared a week of mourning -- indicating a level of respect in India Hitchens didn't address

      7 replies 13 retweets 50 likes
    10. Ali Husain‏ @Ali_Husain333 4 Sep 2016
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      this is a misrepresentation. She did not have a high level of respect, she had near universal acclaim.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
      Replying to @Ali_Husain333

      Don't think it was that universal. Many right-wing Hindus disliked her.

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        1. Ali Husain‏ @Ali_Husain333 4 Sep 2016
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          when she died they were way out of the mainstream and their complaints were not about the quality of her charity.

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