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1000 Lashes

Because I Say What I Think

Raif Badawi author Ahmad Danny Ramadan translator Constantin Schreiber editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Greystone Books,Canada

Published:3rd Sep '15

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"Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear"-- Salman Rushdie Raif Badawi, a Saudi Arabian blogger, shared his thoughts on politics, religion, and liberalism online. He was sentenced to 1,000 lashes, ten years in prison, and a fine of 1 million Saudi Riyal, over a quarter of a million U.S. dollars. This politically topical polemic gathers together Badawi's pivotal texts. He expresses his opinions on life in an autocratic-Islamic state under the Sharia and his perception of freedom of expression, human and civil rights, tolerance and the necessary separation of state and religion.

"Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear, mild, nuanced, but clear. His examination of his culture is perceptive and rigorous. Of course he must be saved from the dreadful sentence against him and the appalling conditions of his imprisonment. But he must also be read, so that we understand the struggle within Islam between suffocating orthodoxy and free expression, and make sure we find ourselves on the right side of that struggle." --Salman Rushdie "Badawi writes for his generation, and for all those interested in changing the Arab and Islamic world for the better." --Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Heretic and Infidel "Badawi's writings are refreshing ...This slim but fascinating and informative volume clearly brings home the consequences of our benign neglect of the Saudi totalitarian situation." --Library Journal

ISBN: 9781771642095

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 85g

80 pages