Salman Rushdie on Kashmir

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Salman Rushdie has a new novel called "Shalimar the Clown." It's about Kashmir. Rushdie is from there and tells Steve Paulson that until recently, the area was an earthly paradise, combining great physical beauty with a tolerant lifestyle. He says the Islam of his grandfather was nothing like that practiced by today's extremists.