Salman Rushdie
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name? ✨ Religion, as ever, is the poison in India's blood by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2002.

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