Author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" has been burned at demonstrations and earned him a fatwa, gave his opinion on the now-deflated threats to burn the Koran by Florida Pastor Terry Jones. His thoughts? "I'm not in favor of burning books." Surprising! At the Brooklyn Book festival yesterday, he also chimed in on the Park 51 drama, coming out in favor of the plan. He said, "It's just a stupid argument. Of course they should be able to build a mosque there." And now the controversy can be over and done with, right?

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