In Early Islam, It Was An Absolute

Killing People Because You Don't Like Their Ideas - It's A Bad Thing.

The West Was Involved In Toppling The Mossadegh Government. That Ultimately Led To The Iranian Revolution.

If I Were Asked For A One-sentence Sound Bite On Religion, I Would Say I Was Against It.

The Thing That Always Attracted Me To New York Was The Sense Of Being In A Place Where A Lot Of People Had A Lot Of Stories Not Unlike Mine,' Rushdie Says. 'everybody Comes From Somewhere Else. Everyone's Got A Polish Grandmother, Some Kind Of Metamorphosis In Their Family Circumstances. That's A Very Big Thing - The Experience Of Not Living Where You Started.

So When I Studied History At Cambridge, I Did A Special Subject In That, Exactly That. And Then Actually That - While I Was Studying It Was Where I Came Across The So-called Incident Of The Satanic Verses.