It is not the job of serious publications to ridicule the religious sentiments held sacred by many.

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Though he is a layman, he is far more passionate in his expression of religious sentiments than Thompson, who is a priest.

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Where the law of the jungle takes precedence in everyday socio-economic affairs, societal norms of common courtesy and religious sentiments may also be cast aside in one way or another for the sake of survival.

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On 10 January, leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband - which is based in Uttar Pradesh - called on the government to block Salman Rushdie's visit as he "had annoyed the religious sentiments of Muslims in the past".

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If anybody tried to hurt any sentiments of any religion or any religious leader, there is a law.

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"The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people, " he wrote.

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