In the Mideast, Feuds and Friendships Turn Orwellian - New Lines Magazine
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[…] it is instructive in how autocrats in the region control popular opinion.
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[…] it implies that longstanding problems like sectarianism, the dominance of virulent strains of conservative Islamic orthodoxy, homophobia and others are not fixed attitudes. They are promulgated or at least tolerated by the state. They can ultimately be reversed, and quite rapidly.