I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
Salman RushdieIslam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
Salman RushdieA man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
Salman Rushdie