[ilgipper]

Ok, Rushdie. Why don’t you go out in the streets and be the first to offer compromise.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If you read the article, he is saying appeasement is not the answer, but confronting them is.

[BwanaNdege]

Rushdie is saying that is the Wrong lesson learned. He is not advocating compromise.

“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.”

[Hulka]

Ahhh. . .I think Rushdie was arguing AGAINST capitulation and compromise. He defends free speech. When he published his book he was the first (as far as I can tell) author in modern times to have a hit out on on him by the muslimes for writing a book. But maybe I read the article too fast and got it worng. . .

[Fightin Whitey]

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.