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From: shari@wpi.wpi.edu (Shari Deiana VanderSpek)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: Rushdie's "Death Sentence"
Message-ID: <7969@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 90 20:25:15 GMT
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In article <7968@wpi.wpi.edu> gsmith%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Gene W. Smith) writes:
>
>>I wonder...  have you read the book?
>
>  I have. The blasphemy aspect has been much exaggerated.
>--

I too read the book, and totally disagree with Gene.  I found it to be
distasteful, and unecessary.  Rushdie has every right to write such a book
if he wishes, but I think that his sense of decency was lost in this endeavor.


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