It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted y…

V. S. Naipaul
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'. ✨ VS Naipaul withdraws from Turkish event after row over Islam comments by Benedicte Page, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2010.
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