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Superstitions are not reduced in monotheism, but concentrated in to one God or his apostle.

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This book is first and foremost an assertion of my right to criticize everything and anything in Islam - even to blaspheme, to make errors, to satirize, and mock.

Why I Am Not a Muslim (1995)

Indeed, the divide between East and West is not unbridgeable, as the case of India demonstrates.

The tribesmen did not know the Koran simply because it did not exist, for it was put together piecemeal at a much later date. In other words, all the traditional accounts are hopelessly wrong.

Islam makes the whole of humanity-Muslims and non-Muslims-suffer. Peaceful Muslims become victims of the oppressive psyche of Islam, which sucks all the life out of them, while non-Muslims are made to suffer at the hands of Islamic terrorists.

There is no such thing as the Koran.

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