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| The Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses is murdered (1991) | |
Copyright Masaru HASHIMOTO
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| FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Salman Rushdie, the author, was put under a death sentence and forced to live in hiding, and the manga artist of "Gomanism Declaration" was nearly killed. People who believe in absolute values also believe they can make absolute judgements in terms of the lives and deaths of others. How frightening. | |