Salman Rushdie on terrorism:
"If the West needs to understand its Unabombers and McVeighs, Islam needs to face up to its bin Ladens," he remarked, referring to the prime suspect in the terrorist attacks on the United States."
"The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrage, accountable government, Jews, homosexuals, women's rights, pluralism, secularism, short skirts, dancing, beardlessness, evolution theory, sex...."
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