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Article: The limits to tolerance. ("The Satanic Verses")
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 25, 1989
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The limits to tolerance
FEW books have had such an impact on world affairs. The reaction to Mr Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" has brought to an abrupt halt the thawing of relations between Iran and the West. The book's publication in Britain proved a convenient pretext for Iran's fundamentalists to rekindle the fervour of their ten-year-old revolution. But the book and the fuss it caused are no sideshow. The clash between Muslims determined to suppress blasphemy and westerners equally determined to uphold free speech showed how hard it can be to reconcile the world's two most buoyant ideologies. That is as worrying for Bradford's Muslims as for Tehran's ...
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