Human beings, as Rushdie put it in his essay «In Good Faith», written a year after the fatwa, «understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the unsayable; not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.» Kenan Malik siterer Salman Rushdie

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