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
Should be back in stock very soon
"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