Pakistan infected by very, very dirty things - coming to sterile Oman soon!

August 11, 2004

> shriadishakti , Latika Sethi> <latikasethi> wrote:> > Mr. Jagbir Singh> >> > You call yourself a sahajayogi and send such cheap mails. I would> > like to from such a group where you share dirty things> > with your sisters and brothers than sharing divine knowledge given> > by Shri Mataji.> >> shriadishakti , "jagbir singh" <adishakti_org> wrote:> > Latika, i do not know what has made you so prudish - the harsh> desert of strictly purdah Oman or the narrow-minded righteousness> that some SYs exhibit. (How long have you been living in that> sterile desert?) >

Rushdie push to porn freedomThe Telegraph, Calcutta, IndiaMonday, August 09, 2004

Rushdie: Straight talk

London, Aug. 8 (PTI): Salman Rushdie claims that pornography is vital to freedom and supports his argument with statistics about the volume of porn traffic on the Internet in Pakistan.

The controversial author argues that a free and civilised society should be judged by its willingness to accept pornography.

His views are to be published alongside images of American porn stars in a book called xxx:30 Porn Star, the Sunday Times reported today.

Rushdie, who faces an edict issued by Iran sentencing him to death for allegedly insulting Islam in his book Satanic Verses, writes in an essay, The East Is Blue: “Pornography exists everywhere, of course, but when it comes into societies in which it’s difficult for young men and women to get together and do what young men and women often like doing, it satisfies a more general need.”

He adds: “While doing so, it sometimes becomes a kind of standard-bearer for freedom, even civilisation.”

According to Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the book’s photographer, Rushdie supports his “argument with statistics about the volume of porn traffic on the Internet in Pakistan”.The Telegraph, Calcutta, IndiaMonday, Calcutta, India