This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the il…

Salman Rushdie
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2008). Step Across This Line, p.218, Random House
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