You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
Salman RushdieSomething was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
Salman RushdieFundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.
Salman Rushdie