Salman Rushdie Controversy
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A thousand “Praise Allah’s to the Ayatollah Khomeini for doing what librarians have been attempting to do ever since the Christians destroyed the great Egyptian library in Alexandria in the year 391.
He made the world realize the power of books.
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