Article: Ibn Warraq is the nom de plume of a Pakistani Muslim living in the United States and writing about Islam as he sees it.(The Week)(Brief article)

Ibn Warraq is the nom de plume of a Pakistani Muslim living in the United States and writing about Islam as he sees it. He has been circulating a passage from Beaumarchais's play in 1784, The Marriage of Figaro, adapted by Mozart for his opera. Beaumarchais might have been commenting on the Danish cartoons of today : "I cobble together a verse comedy about the customs of the harem, assuming that ... I can say what I like about Mohammed without drawing hostile fire. Next thing, some envoy from God-knows-where ...

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