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Salman Rushdie

“For the point is to defend people but not their ideas. It is absolutely right that Muslims - that everyone - should enjoy freedom of religious belief in any free society. It is absolutely right that they should protest against discrimination whenever and wherever they experience it. It is absolutely wrong of them to demand that their belief-system - that any system of belief or thought - should be immunized against criticism, irreverence, satire, even scornful disparagement. This distinction between the individual and his creed is a foundation truth of democracy, and any community that seeks to blur it will not do itself any favours.”

Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 by Salman Rushdie
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