Anesthetising The People

By Tisaranee Gunasekara -June 13, 2013 

“That is a slave’s lot – not to be able to speak one’s mind”. - Euripides (Ion)

In Turkey, an attempt to uproot a public park and build a shopping mall ignited a tidal-wave of protests which is yet to abate.

In Saudi Arabia, innumerable Islamic sites are being annihilated in the name of ‘development’, with nary a protest. “No one has the balls to stand up and condemn this cultural vandalism” laments Dr. Irfan Al Alawi, Executive Director of the Islamic Heritage Foundation; “we have already lost 400-500 sites”[i].

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