“Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
Anne Heche had a "huge heart" yet was content to roll the dice on mowing down a family. I have only a normal heart yet I don't plow into residences.
Salman Rushdie has been stabbed, which exposes an odd aspect of Islam: In one respect, it's as bad for you as you say it is.
“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses