General Article Without blasphemy the West would have no free speech

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Salman Rushdie is the latest in a long line of heretical heroes.

By Mick Hume, Columnist

The attempt by an apparent supporter of the Islamic regime of Iran to murder British author Salman Rushdie for the crime of ‘blasphemy’ might seem to reveal an East-West divide. But in truth battles over blas...

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