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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.
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I for one don't need a supreme sacred arbiter in order to be a moral being.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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