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What Happens When a Hindu Diety is Muslim?

October 7, 2008 islamoyankee

At first some anger, and then nothing. It’s all good. Reminds me of the Farishta of Satanic Verses.

Inter-faithTagged Hinduism, India, Salman Rushdie

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