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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
A new culture clash?
"No sooner have we got over the cartoon row than another tiresome culture clash looms on the horizon," writes South Asia correspondent Bernard Imhasly. "Thanks to the dashing diplomats of the British Foreign Office, Mr Rushdie will be able to have people address him as Sir Salman in future... After a decade of living in the shadows, over the past ten years the author of the 'Satanic Verses' has slowly but surely stepped back into the limelight... It doesn't take an Oxford degree to see that Sir Salman will pay dearly for his knighthood - and his vanity. The protests against the 'hated corpse' (to quote the words of the first deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament) will almost certainly spread, because this rehash of the hunt for Rushdie will once again put the spotlight on the mockery of Muhammad in the 'Satanic Verses'."
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Attacks on German soldiers in Afghanistan
Several people, including three German soldiers, died in a suicide bombing in Kundus in northern Afghanistan. Before the attack, the north of the country, where the German soldiers are stationed, was regarded as relatively peaceful in comparison with the country's war-torn south. Bernard Imhasly comments: "With these acts of sabotage, suicide attacks and bombings the war in Afghanistan increasingly resembles that in Iraq, regardless of occupied areas and territorial zones of influence. While the Taliban has its main zones of influence in the south and east of the country, and NATO troops are inflicting heavy defeats on the enemy there - in the province of Paktia alone over 100 Taliban are reported to have been killed on the weekend - the demoralising impact of the second front's acts of sabotage threatens to help the Taliban's cause politically and thus even out the overall picture of the war. There can be no doubt that with these tactics the Taliban aims to hit its opponent where it hurts most, for Germany appears to be the country with the lowest level of political tolerance for the death of its own soldiers."
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