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SUMMARY:Charlie Hebdo and the Arab Shia: instrumental rhetoric and freedom
  of expression - Mike Clark\, Media\, faith and security
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:Following the attacks on the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo in 
 Paris in Janurary 2015\, statements were issued by both Hassan Nasrallah\,
  Secretary-General of Hezbollah\, and Muqtada al-Sadr\, leader of the Sadr
 ist Movement. Yet\, when these two seemingly similar Shiite Islamist figur
 eheads spoke about the attacks\, each was talking on two distinct levels. 
 Their statements concerned not only those specific and terrible events in 
 faraway lands\, but also their own very pressing political dilemmas. Those
  situations both informed their discourse and represented its secondary-le
 vel subject\, the statements of each speaker being made in order to advanc
 e his interests with respect to those situations. When the rhetoric of Nas
 rallah and Sadr on the Charlie Hebdo shootings are juxtaposed against prio
 r\, seemingly inconsistent statements on other perceived insults to Islam\
 , one can appreciate a striking similarity in how each uses its discourse 
 as an instrument to advance its interests and a fundamental difference in 
 what those specific interests actually are.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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