“I'll publish right or wrong:
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 5.
“This book is first and foremost an assertion of my right to criticize everything and anything in Islam - even to blaspheme, to make errors, to satirize, and mock.”
Quoted from Daniel Pipes in Goel, Sita Ram (editor) (1998). Freedom of expression: Secular theocracy versus liberal democracy. https://web.archive.org/web/20171026023112/http://www.bharatvani.org:80/books/foe/index.htm <br class="br">Why I am not a Muslim
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