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The Unruly Poems of Plato

The Ayatollah was such a bad reader because he wanted to impose his own confirmed views on a book. And the book as we talked about the poet is an unruly one. It is not at all anti-Islam. To accuse him of being anti-Islam is a mistake. In the novel those who show Islam in a bad light, the person who shows it is also a schizophrenic Who is dreaming a world where it's ruled by what Rushdie calls Jhahelia andJhahelia means ignorance. Before the prophet they said that the city was ruled by ignorance and the prophet comes and changes that to knowledge. The other aspect of republic which I agree with is when

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