someone rushdie. >> a book called "the satanic verses" and to me it was offensive. there was a death sentence a fatwa put out on him. the british government had a lot of pressure to shut them down as did his publisher and so his book was never fully censored. he survived but we internalize the fatwa now in a sense that it was much more concerned with defense and now it's uncovered a lot of things that were produced , concerts that weren't put on because of our fear that perhaps there will be not necessarily violence but we have internalize this notion that free speech is fine so long as it doesn't bother anybody so long as it doesn't offend anybody. that's not the free speech that we really care about. it's the larry flynt and the salman rushdie and the nutcase down the street who is protecting your speech, not you and me. we just live our lives and so we have come to believe that free speech itself is a risk a source of harm rather than a reward of society. i think the lesson of the lingering conscience from verses and the cartoons in a diverse society offense is n

the bbc�*s rushdi abualouf in gaza city has the latest details.ght with the israelis attacking two sides belonging to the militant group hamas, the group that is ruling the gaza strip, one in khan yunis, in southern gaza, and the other one is in central gaza city, the sound of bombs, and also and also the sound of israeli military drones flying over gaza was creating some sort of panic and fear for the 2 million people in gaza. they are just trying to recover from the 11 days of fighting. ceasefire is fragile, as always, but egypt is trying to strengthen it, trying to pressure hamas and israel to avoid any sort of escalation. so far they have succeeded during the day and hamas didn't fire rockets as expected, but hundreds of incendiary balloons were sent from gaza, causing some 20 or 30 fires to break on some of the israeli towns and cities in southern israel, and israel said they have attacked the hamas positions tonight in response to this. right. in a sense, what we've seen, then, is hamas promised to respond if the ultranationalist march went

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the bbc�*s rushdi abualouf is in gaza city for us now.hese strikes? it was shortly after midnight with the israelis attacking two sides belonging to the militant group hamas, the group that is ruling the gaza strip, one in southern gaza and one in central gaza, the city of homs, central gaza, the city of horns, and also an example of israeli military flying over gaza was creating some sort of tannic and fearfor the 2 creating some sort of tannic and fear for the 2 million people in gaza. they are just trying to recover from the 11 days of fighting. the ceasefire is fragile, but egypt is trying to pressure hummus and israel to pressure hummus and israel to stop the escalation. so far they have succeeded during the day. and hummus didn't fire rockets as expected, but hundreds of incendiary balloons were sent from gaza, causing some 20 or 35 is to break on some 20 or 35 is to break on some of the israeli towns and cities in southern israel, and israel said they attacked hummus positions tonight in response to this. in hummus positions tonigh