...The Salman Rushdie interview
Here's a simple fact. The world of Islam has to enter the modern world. It has to learn how to live in the modern world. This world in which information is free, in which people do not live according to, let's say, the cultural codes of Arabia in the 7th century. And you can see that there's a great desire among the young people. At some point, in order to thrive, those countries have to modernise their ideas, their thinking, their institutions and they have to offer their people more liberty.
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