Hype vs reality: What did Nurul Izzah really say?


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MY previous column was about sensational gravity – the tendency for public discourse to gravitate towards the sensational.

I fell victim to this phenomenon when I formed my first impression of Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, only to later learn that he did not really say a lot of the things people seem to think he said.

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