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Christopher Hitchens

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

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Christopher Hitchens is saying that conflicts between Muslims, just like those between Christians, prove that these religious groups are not unified entities. He argues that the idea of a single "Christian world" or "Islamic world" is false and misleading.

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