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In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted a man for carrying a phone booklet with characters in an alphabet from

In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted a man for carrying a phone booklet with characters in an alphabet from his native Eritrea, which the police interpreted as occult symbols. He was lashed three hundred times and imprisoned for more than three years.

Steven Pinker
Country, Book, Character
"The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". Book by Steven Pinker, October 4, 2011.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

Steven Pinker
Country, War, Today
Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.281, Penguin

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

Steven Pinker
Country, Character, Land
"My week" by Steven Pinker, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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