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66 Mohamed Arshad Ahmedi Islam to Christianity. Nevertheless, there were also a lot of other people who did not actually cross the line from Islam to Christianity, but having become dissatisfi ed with their cultural milieu, wished to challenge it. They did not wish to remain within their racial, lin- guistic or class setting. They felt ashamed of their own culture and had an inferiority complex. Although they were Muslims by name, that is where their association with Islam ceased. Their thinking and outlook was totally Westernised and their main ambition was to be accepted into the Western way of life. These then were the new class of Western-educated people, most of whom did not accept the traditional Islamic worldview. These were the so-called ‘Westernised elite’, whence came the family of Salman Rushdie.