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Who are the losers in ‘my god versus your god’?

Thirty-three years after the fatwa, the author of the Satanic Verses was grievously injured in an assassination attempt at a literary event in New York. The attack, by a 24-year-old man inspired by the forces unleashed by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, reminds the world how alive is the murderous fury of radical Islam against the freedom of ideas and imagination

The attack on him is a reminder that the pursuit of truth is always pitted against the bloody profanities of faith