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Amartya Sen

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There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
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Interview by Mario Baudino, Amartya Sen: "Think a West tolerant intolerance against Muslims is wrong and dangerous,", La Stampa, 30 January 2003

 
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