Eri hotta ian buruma biography

Meet one of the world's top 'public intellectuals.'

By BEN NAPARSTEK

On a weeknight at the New Yorker Festival a fashionable young crowd has gathered to think about monsters.

Or, rather, to watch Martin Amis, aging prince of literary chic, discuss the origins of evil with Ian Buruma. Amis slouches low inside his black leather jacket, growling provocations about the Koran in his nicotine-cured voice. Buruma sits straight-backed in suit and tie, speaking in BBC English about the alienation that led Muhammad Bouyeri, a second-generation Moroccan Dutchman, to slay journalist-provocateur Theo van Gogh in "But Ian," Amis breaks in, "don't you think that it is important that it's Islam?" "No," Buruma replies calmly.

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"I think it's incidental." Islamic fundamentalists, he argues, could just as well have chosen a secular ideology to justify bloodshed. Buruma has none of Amis's celebrity aura - his rumpled cool, irreverent wit or flamboyant speech.

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