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MSNBC anchor surprised to find terrorism still exists post-Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... in Kashmir and then took a month off, which means that if this was some sort of plot to outflank Obama, they would have had to start planning before he’d even clinched the nomination. No matter. Hitchens notes in today’s cry for solidarity with India that he hadn’t yet found any “Western saps” willing to blame this on Bush/Blair foreign policy. Evidently he doesn’t watch CNN. Same principle here as Trutherism, really: It’s comforting to believe Bush knocked down the Towers because Bush, at least, can be easily dislodged. And now he has been, and still. Imagine Alex ...
Hugh Hewitt: Hitchens on India
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... | Issues | Get Magazine | Finance [image] [image] Hugh Hewitt | Mike Gallagher | Michael Medved | Mary Katharine Ham | Kevin McCullough | Matt Lewis | Radio Blogger | Your Blogs Directory [image] Townhall.com The Blogspot for Political, Conservative and Republican Blogs and Bloggers Monday, December 01, 2008 Hitchens on India Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 8:02 PM Christopher Hitchens writes on India after the Mumbai attacks. [image] Email ...
"Our Friends In Bombay"
Power Line —
... That's the title of this essay by Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens clarifies something that I missed, for some reason: the origin of "Mumbai." I first realized that Bombay had been renamed within the last year or two when, on an airplane, I read an airline magazine article about "Mumbai," evidently one of the great cities of the world, but of which I was entirely ignorant. I figured it could only be Bombay. Hitchens writes: ...
Mumbai-jumbo
The Corner on National Review Online —
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 [image] Mumbai-jumbo [ Mark Steyn ] Christopher Hitchens writes : When Salman Rushdie wrote, in The Moor's Last Sigh in 1995, that "those who hated India, those who sought to ruin it, would need to ruin Bombay," he was alluding to the Hindu chauvinists who had tried to exert their own monopoly in the city and who had forcibly renamed it after a Hindu goddess Mumbai. We all now collude with this, in the same way that most newspapers and TV stations do the Burmese junta's work for it by using the fake name ...
Mumbai v. Bombay
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] I've been planning to complain about the name "Mumbai" for a while. Hitchens beat me to it: When Salman Rushdie wrote, in The Moor's Last Sigh in 1995, that "those who hated India, those who sought to ruin it, would need to ruin Bombay," he was alluding to the Hindu chauvinists who had tried to exert their own monopoly in the city and who ...
It's Bombay
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Hitch informs me that the change in name to Mumbai is a function of Hindu chauvinism: When Salman Rushdie wrote, in The Moor's Last Sigh
in 1995, that "those who hated India, those who sought to ruin it,
would need to ruin Bombay," he was alluding to the Hindu chauvinists
who had tried to exert their own monopoly in the city and who had forcibly renamed it—after
a Hindu goddess—Mumbai. We all now collude with this, in the same way
that most newspapers and TV stations do the Burmese junta's work for it
by using the fake ...
"Those who hated India, those who sought to ruin it, would need to ruin Bombay."
Althouse —
Wrote Salman Rushdie wrote, in The Moor's Last Sigh, Christopher Hitchens tells us: [H]e was alluding to the Hindu chauvinists who had tried to exert their own monopoly in the city and who had forcibly renamed it—after a Hindu goddess—Mumbai. We all now collude with this, in the same way that most newspapers and TV stations do the Burmese junta's work for it by using the fake name Myanmar. (Bombay's hospital and stock exchange, both targets of terrorists, are still called by their right name by most people, just as Bollywood retains its ...
Hitchens And Sullivan Sullivan Come Out For Imperialism
Rhymes With Right —
... quotes Hitchens approvingly, and therefore indicates his intent to call the city victimized by Islamist terrorists last week Bombay rather than by its proper modern name, Mumbai. Their argument is that it is illegitimate for brown-skinned to change the names given to their cities by their British masters during the colonial era especially if that name change reflects the cultural heritage of the majority. When Salman Rushdie wrote, in The Moor's Last Sigh in 1995, that "those who hated India, those who sought to ruin it, would need to ruin Bombay," he was alluding to the ...
