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Salman Rushdie

2008-04-30T00:21:39Z

Jstein: New page: Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is the controversial author of the book "The Santanic Verses." The book has angered many Muslims who believe thatSir Rushdie's portrayal of the [[Prophet Muham...

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is the controversial author of the book "The Santanic Verses." The book has angered many [[Muslim]]s who believe thatSir Rushdie's portrayal of the [[Prophet Muhammad]] (an illustration of a legend surrounding the prophet) is heretical and irreverant.

Rushdie's book tells the story of original instructions from Muhammad that the Muslim people should worship three ancient pagan goddesses that had been worshiped in Mecca before the time of [[Islam]]. According to the story, Muhammad later recanted the verses, saying that the devil had persuaded him to add them as blasphemies.

In 1989, [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]] declared a [[fatwa]] on Rushdie, mandating his execution under Islamic law. Because of this, Rushdie was forced to live under police protection for many years.

Rushdie was knighted in his home country of the United Kingdom in June of 2007.

Daniel Dennett

2008-04-29T12:57:54Z

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'''Daniel Dennett''' is a philosophy professor at [[Tufts University]] who actively promotes the [[naturalistic]] world view through such books as ''[[Darwin’s Dangerous Idea]]''.

==Conscious Philosophy==

Dennett is widely regarded as one of the premier philosophers in the world in the area of consciousness and his book [[Consciousness Explained]] is regarded as the most important text in naturalist philosophy of the mind. In it, he proposes his initial [[multiple drafts model]] of consciousness, where he proposes that there is no single source of consciousness (no [[conscious qualia]], as proposed by many of his contemporaries).

He has been heavily criticized by some of his peers for denying the existence of qualia and sticking with his naturalist models of consciousness (he later expanded the multiple drafts model to the [[fame in the brain]] model in his 2005 book [[Sweet Dreams]]) as he insists that there is no evidence, and that neurological science will, in time, progress to make the idea of qualia, or the source of seemingly inexplicable functions in the mind, obselete.

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Christopher Hitchens

2008-04-29T04:31:17Z

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[[Image:Hitchens,_Stanford.jpg‎ |right|thumb|200px|Christopher Hitchens]]
'''Christopher Eric Hitchens''' (born April 13, 1949, in [[Portsmouth]], [[England]]) is a [[neo-conservative]] journalist, author and literary critic. Hitchens received degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from [[Oxford University|Balliol College]], [[Oxford]], in 1970. From 1971-1981, he worked in [[Britain]] as book reviewer for ''The Times'' newspaper. He emigrated to the United States in 1981, and has written regularly, or been a contributing editor for ''Harper's'', ''Vanity Fair'' and [[Nation (magazine)|''The Nation'']]. He is [[Judaism|Jewish]] by matrilineal descent, although he did not discover this until he was 38 years old. He himself is an avowed [[Atheism|atheist]]. Hitchens has a younger brother, [[Peter Hitchens]], who is also a very prominent journalist, author and critic.

Christopher Hitchens was a member of the International Socialists and an active [[Trotskyist]] during his youth.

==Opposition to Islam and Support of the War on Terror==

Christopher Hitchens became an activist against Islam when Ayatullah Kohmeini declared a [[fatwa]] against his personal friend [[Salman Rushdie]]. The event has led him to become very vocal in his support of the war in Iraq and heavily critical of Muslim society and ethics.

==Select bibliography ==
*''Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten'' (Cassell, 1976)
*''Hostage to History: Cyprus From the Ottomans to Kissinger'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989)
*''Imperial Spoils: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles'' (Hill and Wang, 1989)
*''Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990)
*''The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice'' (Verso, 1995)
*''Prepared for the Worst'' (Hill and Wang, 1989)
*''For the Sake of Argument: Essays & Minority Reports'' (Verso, 1993)
*''No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family'' (Verso, 2000)
*''god Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion'' (Atlantic, 2007)

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[[Category:Authors|Hitchens, Christopher]]

[[Category:Journalists]]

Christopher Hitchens

2008-04-29T04:20:42Z

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[[Image:Hitchens,_Stanford.jpg‎ |right|thumb|200px|Christopher Hitchens]]
'''Christopher Eric Hitchens''' (born April 13, 1949, in [[Portsmouth]], [[England]]) is a [[neo-conservative]] journalist, author and literary critic. Hitchens received degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from [[Oxford University|Balliol College]], [[Oxford]], in 1970. From 1971-1981, he worked in [[Britain]] as book reviewer for ''The Times'' newspaper. He emigrated to the United States in 1981, and has written regularly, or been a contributing editor for ''Harper's'', ''Vanity Fair'' and [[Nation (magazine)|''The Nation'']]. He is [[Judaism|Jewish]] by matrilineal descent, although he did not discover this until he was 38 years old. He himself is an avowed [[Atheism|atheist]]. Hitchens has a younger brother, [[Peter Hitchens]], who is also a very prominent journalist, author and critic.

Christopher Hitchens was a member of the International Socialists and an active [[Trotskyist]] during his youth.

==Select bibliography ==
*''Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten'' (Cassell, 1976)
*''Hostage to History: Cyprus From the Ottomans to Kissinger'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989)
*''Imperial Spoils: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles'' (Hill and Wang, 1989)
*''Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990)
*''The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice'' (Verso, 1995)
*''Prepared for the Worst'' (Hill and Wang, 1989)
*''For the Sake of Argument: Essays & Minority Reports'' (Verso, 1993)
*''No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family'' (Verso, 2000)
*''god Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion'' (Atlantic, 2007)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hitchens, Christopher}}
[[Category:Authors|Hitchens, Christopher]]

[[Category:Journalists]]