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Martin Amis: The 2013 interview

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The Arab Spring Is Already Looking Like the Arab Winter

You have said that you are not Islamophobic but could be Islamist, ophobic. Tachphir is an Islamic heresy or sophistry whereby you justify killing your co-religionists by the following means if they are good Muslims they will go to heaven. If they are bad Muslims then to hell with them. And I am certainly against that. The Arab Spring is already looking like the Arab winter and it is not at all surprising that democracy has not taken hold in the way we all hoped it would. That it is a foreign idea and would take you know decades if not centuries to become the norm in the Arab world. You don't fear the governments even if they are Muslim

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