Hear hear! Rt @Calestous: "Fundamentalism isn't about religion. It's about power." -- Salman Rushdie"
@mtpollack @salimismail I suspect that Salman Rushdie has some personal knowledge of this issue.
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@Calestous@salimismail No doubt. It's a simplistic formulation nevertheless. -
@mtpollack@salimismail You be the judge. -
@Calestous@mtpollack@salimismail Reducing enormously complex human phenomena to memorable sound-bites forecloses on serious inquiry, -
@mtpollack@salimismail It takes curiosity to see explore beyond the length of a quote rather than judge it a face value. -
@Calestous@salimismail Better, then, to present it as a question, rather than an answer, if that's your aim. -
@mtpollack@salimismail I have learned that telling others how to tweet always ends in failure. Twitter is inherently bully-proof. -
@Calestous@salimismail No, no, would never do that. I was only commenting on the quoted aphorism. Not apt to inspire curiosity, I thought. -
@mtpollack@salimismail Aphorisms are just that. A pebble should be spared of the demands of being a boulder.
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