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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Oct 18

    Jamal Khashoggi's final column: What the Arab world needs most is free expressionhttps://wapo.st/2q08oDa?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.47a0b1d81afe …

    12:03 PM - 18 Oct 2018
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      1. Matthew Cory‏ @TricksterDoesIt Oct 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        Steve, you never do your homework. He was calling for the execution of Sheikh Nimr. Fail. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/reactions-saudi-execution-prominent-shia-cleric-1203095459 …pic.twitter.com/ZR9lOZ7EXk

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      2. Tᴏᴍ Vᴀɴ Dʏᴋᴇ‏ @DykeVanTom Oct 18
        Replying to @sapinker @MattPolProf

        worthless read Khashoggi in Arabichttps://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-khashoggi-was-a-victim-of-saudi-terror-and-a-supporter-of-palestinian-terrorism-1.6571267 …

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      3. Matt McManus‏ @MattPolProf Oct 18
        Replying to @DykeVanTom @sapinker

        Yes I certainly had many problems with his analyses. I still find the apathy demonstrated towards his rather brutal murder consistently disturbing.

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      4. Tᴏᴍ Vᴀɴ Dʏᴋᴇ‏ @DykeVanTom Oct 18
        Replying to @MattPolProf @sapinker

        Did Sulaiman the Magnificent care what Henry VIII did to Sir Thomas More? point being that this is a religio-political conflict and an internal Islamic matter, the Saudi crypto-caliphate vs the Muslim Brotherhood if the roles were reversed, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ no good guys here

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      5. Matt McManus‏ @MattPolProf Oct 18
        Replying to @DykeVanTom @sapinker

        True. I am certainly not pushing for intervention into Saudi affairs. But it would be admirable if the administration took a hard line by curbing sale of weapons, or at least made this contingent on certain internal reforms/using them against civilians etc.

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      6. Tᴏᴍ Vᴀɴ Dʏᴋᴇ‏ @DykeVanTom Oct 18
        Replying to @MattPolProf @sapinker

        dunno Saudi is now Israel's only effective friend in the Muslim world why throw that away on behalf of a Muslim Brotherhood Hamas ally? Saudi is the only effective obstacle to Iran's terrorist pan-Islamism why throw that away for Khashoggi?https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/253460 …

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      7. Matt McManus‏ @MattPolProf Oct 18
        Replying to @DykeVanTom @sapinker

        One needn't throw it away. It can be tied to a system of rewards for gradual internal reforms. We have seen that this can be effective given recent Saudi efforts to at least posture at respecting liberal values with a Sunni twist.

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      8. Tᴏᴍ Vᴀɴ Dʏᴋᴇ‏ @DykeVanTom Oct 18
        Replying to @MattPolProf @sapinker

        often, reformers have opposition not only externally on the left [such as the Muslim Brotherhood] but internally on their right it could be Khashoggi was a sacrifice to Saudi loyalists an internal matter we may never penetrate and a bad hill to let Saudi cooperation die on

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      1. gulsum delyo  🌙‏ @canuckurd Oct 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        Unfortunately there is no free expression in any Muslim county. But there is a fee attached to expression. And this fee could be as high as your life.

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      1. ConTraRiaN IncLinAtiOnZ‏ @MindContra Oct 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        Riiiiight Mr. Muslim Brotherhood really wanted free expression.. no he wanted to be able to criticize Saudi Arabia while pushing Turkish propaganda

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      1. Yana‏ @NorthCaliGrl Oct 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        Leftists highlighting Islam's need for free expression is laughable. We ALL know the consequences for expressing an alternative POV from leftist ideology by today's left & bastions of illiberalism: academia, Google, media FULL Video http://youtu.be/6zaj-nD9wPE pic.twitter.com/7HTkelPzVF

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      1. Alan J. Keefe‏ @AlanJKeefe Oct 18
        Replying to @sapinker @clairlemon

        It greatly saddens me to read his last piece. The sense of finality is heartbreaking.

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      1. Arouet‏ @BastardVoltaire Oct 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        The only free expression he was granted was his blood all over a room in Istanbul.

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      1. Ethical-Possibility-Enhancement‏ @EPE_Movement Oct 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        +1

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      1. Barış Bayram (philosopher)‏ @BarisBayram2045 Oct 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        Thank you.

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      1. Anthony‏ @trippinlikegod Oct 18
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        pic.twitter.com/ZdaqxHB4fy

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      2. Dean Urqahart‏ @IphoneMumbai Oct 19
        Replying to @sapinker @ConfessionsExMu

        Does Iran need free press as well, Mr Pinker? Or are you only obsessed with Saudi and see Iran as a good influence to counter Israel?

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      3. Yenrap Rellin‏ @sisboombahbah Oct 19
        Replying to @IphoneMumbai @sapinker @ConfessionsExMu

        Iran is clearly better than Saudi Wahabism.

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      4. Dean Urqahart‏ @IphoneMumbai Oct 19
        Replying to @sisboombahbah @sapinker @ConfessionsExMu

        So there is a leaderboard of which country is the worst? Iran forces every woman to wear hijab. Kills 500+ every year for mundane crimes. Don't be an apologist for an evil regime to make your point.pic.twitter.com/fYNdTdlxEk

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      5. Yenrap Rellin‏ @sisboombahbah Oct 19
        Replying to @IphoneMumbai @sapinker @ConfessionsExMu

        I’m not an apologist for anyone. Things are better or worse than other things. Iranian people specifically seem more secular & less crazy religious. And the Saudis open schools that teach an awful strain of Suni Islam that directly leads to Isis type thinking. So worse.

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      6. Dean Urqahart‏ @IphoneMumbai Oct 19
        Replying to @sisboombahbah @sapinker @ConfessionsExMu

        Saudi people and Iranian people are the same. It's the regimes that are vile. Iran kills people for "speculating" and leaving Islam. I don't think you are on firm grounds when you say Iran is better.

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      7. Yenrap Rellin‏ @sisboombahbah Oct 19
        Replying to @IphoneMumbai @sapinker @ConfessionsExMu

        Agreed on the first part. And I’m not saying the Iranian regime is good. If what you say is truth then that sucks. But is it worse than spreading Sunni fundamentalism? Meaning in total numbers of death? And wars like Syria & Iraq? I don’t know.

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