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Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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