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Salman Rushdie stabbed, it’s the freedom of creation that we attack. The satanic verses, a novel of doubt and the personal interpretation of religion, has nothing to do with the hateful firebrand denounced by the Islamists. While writing it, the author did not imagine the fury that would ensue. Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa 33 years ago marked the great return of religious fundamentalism. Since then, an endless war has been waged against free thinkers, who are silenced by violence or intimidation. A war against which we would like a great crash to finally thunder.