Jennifer Egan Quotes
I've been interested in terrorism from the very beginning. My first novel is about that, too, and I think one reason I've been so interested in terrorism is because I have a deep interest - one of my deepest interests - in image culture and how it works. And terrorism is an epiphenomenon of image culture.
Egan, Jennifer. Interview by Heidi Julavits. BOMB Magazine, no. 112, Summer 2010.
The Pakistani government and the army were two distinct and separate power centers. The military saw their major problem to be India, and coddled the Islamic terrorists to deploy them against India while claiming the military is not responsible for the attacks. The terrorism that is taught in many Madrassas schools, the government is reluctant to crack down on and get the terrorism out of the curriculum as they will lose many orthodox Muslim votes and the Islamic terrorists might assassinate any politician who threatend their power base. So Pakistan tried at the time to control the terrorist acts but would not do anything to weaken the terrorists.
Some of the Prophet’s followers by modern standards were very violent and urged attacks on innocent people in order to intimidate others. He was expelled from his Egyptian university and arrested, tried and found guilty of “holding religion in contempt”. Which is a crime in most Islamic countries. He also “insulted” the President. He is the first blogger to have been jailed in Egypt for the contents of his blog. See {585058}.
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer. Egan's novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. As of February 28, 2018, she is the President of the PEN America Center. Egan lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.
