In ‘Night Of Happiness’, Tabish Khair Wants Empathy For The Liberal Muslim

May 21, 2018

In 1979, I shared a home with a pious Sunni Muslim colleague. He was a very sound accountant and I’d always defer to him on matters regarding amortization of goodwill, tax accounting and so on. And then one day, the Khomeini Revolution happened in Iran. I started noticing the acute discomfort that my friend felt in discussing anything to do with the new Islam and the emerging new world. Over the last forty years, life has become far more difficult for the liberal, sensitive Muslim whose interests include innocuous subjects like accounting and finance.

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