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'Nothing is too profane to write, albeit nothing is too sacred to ban. Some of the bannings, if we analyse, are revenge bans. That occurs when the sect prohibiting the book is offended by another ban of a certain book they revere. The rivalry between the schools of thoughts pollute the ideosphere. Rushdie and beyond…'
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