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"Once I was ready to burn The Satanic Verses. Now I know that (Rushdie's) right to publish it was a more sacred thing than any religion."
That is the last sentence in a piece by Ayaan Hirsi Ali called "Muslim Rage & The Last Gasp of Islamic Hate" in which she describes the cowardly abandonment of Freedom of Speech by the West in the face of the demand by some Muslims that their cultural imperative overrides ours.
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"Once I was ready to burn The Satanic Verses. Now I know that (Rushdie's) right to publish it was a more sacred thing than any religion."
That is the last sentence in a piece by Ayaan Hirsi Ali called "Muslim Rage & The Last Gasp of Islamic Hate" in which she describes the cowardly abandonment of Freedom of Speech by the West in the face of the demand by some Muslims that their cultural imperative overrides ours.
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