Aparisim "Bobby" Ghosh is a journalist and TIME Magazine's

Time (magazine)

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 World Editor. An India

India

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n national, he is the first non-American to be named World Editor in TIME's more than 80 years. He has previously been TIME's Baghdad

Baghdad

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 bureau chief, and one of the longest-serving correspondents in Iraq

Iraq

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. He has written stories from other conflict areas, like Palestine

Palestine

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 and Kashmir

Kashmir

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. He has also worked for Time Asia and Time Europe and has covered subjects as varied as technology and soccer, business and social trends. His Baghdad journalism has included profiles of suicide bombers

Suicide attack

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 and other terrorists, stories about extraordinary Iraqis and also political figures.

Author of provocative Time magazine article related to the cover "Is America Islamophobic?" mildly titled [ "Does America Have a Muslim Problem?" http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2011798,00.html] in Edition: U.S.
Vol. 176 No. 9, dated August 30, 2010 when US attention to the building of a mosque near Ground Zero lead the news.

He has postulated that to a believing Muslim, the perception may be that 'burning the koran is much worse than burning the Bible

Bible

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, because the koran is directly from God

God

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, while the Bible isn't.'http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/04/time-mag-editor-burning-the-koran-is-worse-than-burning-bible-video/