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Tariq Ali Khan is a British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He read PPE at Exeter College, Oxford.

He is the author of many books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power , Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State , Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity , Bush in Babylon , Conversations with Edward Said , Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope , A Banker for All Seasons , The Duel , The Obama Syndrome , and The Extreme Centre: A Warning . Wikipedia  

✵ 21. October 1943
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The Clash of Fundamentalisms
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Famous Tariq Ali Quotes

“If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.”

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“How we live our lives does not, unfortunately depend on us alone. Circumstances, good or bad, constantly intervene. A person close to us die. A person not so close to us carries on living. All these things affect how we live.”

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Source: The Stone Woman

“It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.”

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Source: The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

“For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.”

Tariq Ali book The Clash of Fundamentalisms

Referring to the Taliban. The Clash of Fundamentalisms ISBN 1-85984-457-X, pg. 200.

“The government of the US has no moral authority to elect itself as the judge over human rights in Cuba, where there has not been a single case of disappearance, torture or extra-judicial execution since 1959, and where despite the economic blockade, there are levels of health, education and culture that are internationally recognised.”

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Appeal signed by Tariq Ali in The Guardian, March 26, 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1445897,00.html

“We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.”

Tariq Ali

Commentary essay, "For one day only, I'm a Lib Dem: We must take the politics of the anti-war front into the electoral arena," The Guardian, March 26, 2005 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1445964,00.html#article_continue.

Tariq Ali Quotes

“Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.”

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The Clash of Fundamentalism

“Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.”

Tariq Ali

The Clash of Fundamentalism

“Let's discuss the world. To answer the question, "is globalisation possible without God", the simple answer is "yes". Globalisation is after all itself a code word, a mask, for not using the C-word, capitalism. Globalisation is basically the latest phase of expanding capitalism. This not something which is neutral, this is a capitalism that has its rules: it has its economic rules, it has its political rules, it has its cultural rules and it has its military rules. It is a system. At the heart of this system is the United States of America, the world's only existing empire today. The first time in the history of humanity that you have just had a single empire, so dominant, whose military budget is higher than the military budgets of the next 15 countries put together, and whose military-industrial complex itself is the eleventh largest economic entity in the world. This is the reality we live in, and this is the reality which confronts us in different ways.”

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10th Globalisation lecture, VRPO. http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/artikelen/21200518/

“The reality of women in Islam is a prefabricated destiny.”

Tariq Ali

The Clash of Fundamentalism

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