Wednesday May 31, 2006Fact or fiction?MUSINGS BY MARINA MAHATHIRAMIDST the endless chatter about The Da Vinci Code recently, a British survey revealed that almost half of the people who had read it thought it was likely to be true. Considering that the book is billed as fiction, how can this be? Perhaps we cannot blame these people. These days it is so hard to tell fact from fiction that anyone would...
31 May 2006
22 May 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 22 May 2006
Wednesday May 17, 2006HIV on the riseMUSINGSBy MARINA MAHATHIRROHANI is a 17-year-old girl whom anyone would mistake for being only 14. At age 12, her stepfather started to rape her. When she was 14, he died. Soon after, her mother also died, like her husband, of AIDS. Rohani got tested and was found to be HIV-positive. Sent to live with her grandmother, she found her way to the hospital where she...
15 May 2006
by Marina Mahathir | re-published by SambalBelacan on 15 May 2006
Wednesday May 3, 2006The followersMUSINGSBy MARINA MAHATHIRA FRIEND was relating how after her daughter had read the Da Vinci Code, she had wanted to read the Bible. Which is not in itself a bad thing except that she was concerned that an impressionable young mind would not be able to differentiate fact from fiction. Also it seemed that perhaps what was needed is a Da Vinci Code-type book for Muslims...
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