Maybe there is a difference between writers and propagandists.

From Naim Ibrahim:

... Hussain Salahuddeen was a great Dhivehi writer.  Keerithi Rasoolaage Siyarathu and Boduthakurufaanu Vaahaka became the pillars of Dhivehi nationism. But was he honest to his craft? 

Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. His propaganda minister, Goebbels, wrote volumes too. Mao had The Little Red Book. Gaddafi had The Green Book.

They were writers. They believed they were working toward national greatness. But can anyone, in earnest, call their writing honest in the literary sense?

Maybe they were honest in their own way. Perhaps the isms they championed were, to them, moral imperatives. They believed those causes justified the suffering and death of millions... READ MORE from Naim's Instagram