Posted on 07/22/2015 10:47:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
More than a quarter century after being slapped with a fatwa fromIran calling for his murder over his book The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie says the world has learned the wrong lessons about freedom of expression.
The British author, in an interview published Wednesday by the French news magazine LExpress, said his ordeal by religious fanatics determined to violently avenge what they construed as blasphemy should have served as a wake-up call to the world.
Instead, after the September 11, 2001 attack on America and the massacre in Paris in January this year of cartoonists and staff at the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly, and with the ongoing rampage of the brutal Islamic State group in the Middle East, Rushdie said some writers and other people were too cowed to talk freely about Islam.
It seems we learned the wrong lessons, he said in the interview printed in French. Instead of concluding we need to oppose these attacks on freedom of expression, we believed we should calm them through compromises and ceding.
The "politically correct" positions voiced by some -- including a few prominent authors who disagreed with Charlie Hebdo receiving a freedom of speech award at a PEN literary gala in New York in May -- were motivated by fear, Rushdie said.
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Ok, Rushdie. Why don’t you go out in the streets and be the first to offer compromise.
If you read the article, he is saying appeasement is not the answer, but confronting them is.
It seems we learned the wrong lessons, he said in the interview printed in French. Instead of concluding we need to oppose these attacks on freedom of expression, we believed we should calm them through compromises and ceding.
Yeah well, you didn’t knock down the WTC. The Muslims did that. So liberals are no longer interested in protecting you.
Unlike Obama/Kerry, Rushdie gets it.
It seems so quaint and cliché to say this all these years later, but I truly DID learn everything I need to know about Islam on 9/11.
Everything.
I saw that vulgar S.O.B. at a public appearance on a college campus about midway into the 2000s, after the immediate peril of the fatwa had passed.
He stood on the stage and brayed about and cursed at all things American, and especially Bush 43 and our murderous troops in Iraq at that time, as the campus crowd screamed and clapped in approval.
This wormy gutless little piece of crap took refuge in this country and was kept safe and prosperous, yet had not a single syllable of praise or gratitude for his host country-—not to mention the soldiers fightin and dying for all of us.
The hell with Rushdie. I wish it had been him rather than Hebdo.
Many in the West are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
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