Jinn?
According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes.
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2004-Oct-14 ![[this day]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/images/dailyLinkIcon.gif)
Fake sympathy
John Rosenthal (WSJ):
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... In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, countless private individuals in Western Europe undoubtedly felt sympathy with the victims and many saw fit to express it in small symbolic acts, such as laying flowers before the American Embassy in Paris. Given the horror of the attacks, such reactions were, so to say, only human. What was more unusual and hence noteworthy, however, was that at the same time the attacks seemed to elicit from the very start a sort of paroxysm of--as an Austrian friend of mine aptly put it--anti-American "ventilating." In the major media, moreover, the expressions of hatred and contempt for America quickly came to eclipse those of sympathy. An especially conspicuous case in point is provided by the influential French daily Le Monde. ...