Salman Rushdie's attempted murder is an attack on religious freedom
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George Pitcher2022-08-19T11:06:00
The stabbing of the author of The Satanic Verses and an old college photo of assassinated Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, reminds George Pitcher that living self-sacrificially is a key tenet of the Christian faith
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