Doris Lessing in the New York Times Magazine:
Are you still practicing Sufism? I think the word is “studying” it, “learning” it.
Isn’t it a strand of Islam, founded by Muhammad? I know people think this, because they have looked in the nearest reference book, but the thing is Sufism has always had adherents from all faiths or none.
As a longtime resident of London, what do you make of the growing Islamic presence in Europe? I don’t go on and on about it, like our two knights.
You mean Martin Amis. And who else? The other one who never stops going on about Islam. Christopher Hitchens. I don’t want to add any nasty poison to this brew. It’s nasty enough as it is, so let’s leave it.
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As a longtime resident of London, what do you make of the growing Islamic presence in Europe?
Imagine if Deborah could recast that question with any other faith, say for example, Judaism.
To wit:
As a longtime resident of London, what do you make of the growing Jewish presence in Europe?
funny, huh.
And this interview follows on the one Solomon did with Dan Gillerman, Israel’s ambassador to the UN. He was happy to call Jimmy Carter a bigot for objecting, among other things, to the degrading conditions in which Israel keeps the people of Gaza.
‘France’ and ‘manan’ I think you are both misinterpreting Doris Lessing’s remarks. She’s not being an Islamophobe. She is actually making fun of Amis and Hitchens’s ridiculousness.
Well, I wasn’t talking about the interviewee but the interviewer.
I see.
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