Word: hereticism
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Thus some of Rushdie's detractors can now say that a symmetrical justice has been served: those who court fame end up with infamy. The man who notoriously abandoned the longtime editor who backed him for more than a decade in order to get a contract of roughly $1 million...
Compared with the uproar in Iran and the Indian subcontinent, most of the Muslim reaction in the Middle East was mild. Though a conference of theologians meeting in Mecca denounced Rushdie as a "heretic and renegade" and reportedly demanded he be tried in absentia in an Islamic country, others argued...
The Iranian news agency initially observed that the "Muslim heretic" had not repented. Later it said the apology might be accepted, and still later it dismissed the previous comment as the personal opinion of one of its employees. At the same time, the news agency reported that a local newspaper...
A. When I'm called a conservative, I now wear that as a badge of honor, because in my world it really just means you are a heretic, you've said something unorthodox. You are supposed to conform to certain intellectual fashions, and if you don't, they say, "That...
Aug. 30, 1968. Soviet tanks are parked near Prague's Old Town Square, ready to disperse the young people gathered around the mournful statue of Jan Hus, the 15th century religious reformer who was burned at the stake as a heretic. Looking down on the tanks from his third-floor...