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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

Salman Rushdie

You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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Bed Frame Hang Home Notice Shame Wall
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Combination Freedom Heart Reason Religion Threat Tragedy
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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Criticism Hide Knowledge Thinking Violence Writing
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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God Name Problem Religious World
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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Bad God Himself Lover Mood Quality Worry
But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Achievement Creation Goal Innocence Legal Murder People Pursuit Terrorism
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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