
Salman Rushdie and the fatwa
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The Prophet Is Deserved of Divine Status
Francis sa: The standing of the prophet within islam occupies a position that is hard to really convey to those perhaps e more secular minded individuals or oll secular societies. In places like parcisthon, a moslem majority country, there are the majority there who subscribe to an expression of synism which places a particular accent on the person of the prophet as deserving a reverence. Francis sa: I do feel that the fundamentalists have spread rusties blasphemy, what they have done, because what body writes and is not known. But each time you repeat a blasphemy, well, you commit a blasphemy. And perhaps it would have been more appropriate to ignore such a book.
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