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UK: No apology for honouring Rushdie
Friday, June 22, 2007 203.197.197.71
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Britain has announced that it will not apologise for honouring Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie with a knighthood.Despite protests in Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and parts of India, British home secretary John Reid said: "We have very strong laws about promoting racial intolerance. It isn’t a free-for-all. We’ve thought very carefully about it. But we have a right to express opinions and a tolerance
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