Islamic Delights

Fundamentalism has become the face of Islam in the West. It was not always so and need not be in the future, says Tim Stanley.

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When I was a boy there was a bookshop in a nearby village that sold vintage copies of indecent books. The classics were kept in the upstairs room, where I was able to hide away for hours and read them uninterrupted.

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