The face of the man who tried to kill Salman Rushdie stuck in my mind. What schools did he attend, what books did he read? What friends did he have? In the middle of history, there are fanatics of God who become enemies of the human species.

After the attack, it was learned that shortly before he had traveled to Lebanon, where he became radicalized in the Islamic culture. The force that drives water through rocks. direct my red blood. The Clash of the World Order, published in 1996, was pulled from the shelves from East and West.