A million dollars in bounty was offered to carry out the fatwa death sentence on Rushdie the Apostate. It was not clear whether the Iranian ayatollah actually possessed a million dollars, or how easy it would be to claim the reward, but those were not logical days.
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Write comment (2 Comments) Fear of the big and powerful neighbour Indonesia is nothing new in Malaysia, starting with the Konfrontasi in the early 1960s. Indonesia has always been perceived in Malaysia as a bloody mess, sometimes quite literally. This is especially so in the post-Reformasi era (1998 onwards) when there have been spates of suicide bombings...
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If a manufacturing plant involving radioactive materials moved into your community, one of the first things you would ask is, "what’s going to happen to the waste?"
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Deepak Jaikishan names well connected lawyer in murder cover-up
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The problem begins with the nation-state ideal; for its coherence depends on there being a people deemed as the rightful owners of a land. It is rooted to the belief that territory is property – a thing to own – and that loyalty to the people means, among other things, the readiness to uphold the integrity of territory to ensure it belongs to the nation.
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