Salman Rushdie On How Blair’s Bill To Outlaw Criticism Of Religion Was Blocked — Just

And a little about his own, rather relaxed upbringing (neither parent seemed to care very much about Islam), which was possible in Mumbai,India, as it would not have been in Pakistan,  and about the efforts of Rowan Atkinson to stop Blair’s bill — a bill that would have outlawed criticism of religion, and that failed to pass by one vote. I had not been aware of that bill. One more reason for you to dislike Blair even more than you do.

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