LOL.... Progressives.... joining the likes of Xi, Putin, Hitler............ and Islamic extremists...
https://unherd.com/newsroom/salman-rushdie-now-the-censors-are-progressives/
His Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi was murdered in Tokyo. His Italian translator Ettore Capriolo was stabbed in Milan. His Norwegian translator William Nygaard was shot in Oslo. Salman Rushdie had been dreading this day for over 30 years: between 1989 and 1998, he moved houses 30 times to avoid it.
Then, in August 2022, Rushdie was attacked and nearly killed by a young man in the upstate New York town of Chautauqua. The author has a new book out this week, Knife, which recounts what happened and his recovery afterwards. In an episode of CBS’s 60 Minutes aired last night, he was interviewed about the experience by Anderson Cooper.
The attack was a vicious reminder of the death sentence imposed on Rushdie by the savage theocracy of Iran in February 1989 for the alleged crime of writing his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. He survived, to the relief not just of his friends and family, but also of anyone who thinks novelists should be free to write about controversial subjects without being subject to murderous intimidation.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/salman-rushdie-now-the-censors-are-progressives/
His Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi was murdered in Tokyo. His Italian translator Ettore Capriolo was stabbed in Milan. His Norwegian translator William Nygaard was shot in Oslo. Salman Rushdie had been dreading this day for over 30 years: between 1989 and 1998, he moved houses 30 times to avoid it.
Then, in August 2022, Rushdie was attacked and nearly killed by a young man in the upstate New York town of Chautauqua. The author has a new book out this week, Knife, which recounts what happened and his recovery afterwards. In an episode of CBS’s 60 Minutes aired last night, he was interviewed about the experience by Anderson Cooper.
The attack was a vicious reminder of the death sentence imposed on Rushdie by the savage theocracy of Iran in February 1989 for the alleged crime of writing his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. He survived, to the relief not just of his friends and family, but also of anyone who thinks novelists should be free to write about controversial subjects without being subject to murderous intimidation.
