From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. — Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. — Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. — Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. — Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. — Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

— Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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