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Salman Rushdie

Blisterman · 2006-01-13 17:25:23

I only have a vague understanding of this situation, so If anyone can explain a little better, that'd be good. My understanding is that, an Author, Salman Rushdie, wrote a book, The Satanic Verses, critisising Islam, and the Islamic leaders urged all muslims to try and hunt him down and kill him. How can a religion justify…

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I only have a vague understanding of this situation, so If anyone can explain a little better, that'd be good.
My understanding is that, an Author, Salman Rushdie, wrote a book, The Satanic Verses, critisising Islam, and the Islamic leaders urged all muslims to try and hunt him down and kill him.
How can a religion justify this? Do people not have the basic right to free opinion and speech? Why didn't they just address the critisism with a good response?

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Already discussed here I think. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054865348

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