Posted on 09/14/2005 9:52:01 AM PDT by hinterlander
The man who is very likely the most famous novelist in the world made it clear last week that he has not changed his favorable opinion of two decades ago about the former Marxist-Leninist regime in Nicaragua. In an on-line response to a query from HUMAN EVENTS' John Gizzi, Salman Rushdie--best known for the $5 million bounty placed on his head by the Ayatollah Khomeni in 1989--wrote that "I haven't changed my mind about the Sandanistas of those days, the mid-1980's."
From his London home, Rushdie went on to denounce the Reagan Administration's efforts to upend the regime of President Daniel Ortega, who was later defeated for re-election and has since lost two comeback attempts at the polls. "It would have been easy to make Nicaragua an ally of the U.S.," Rushdie wrote Gizzi, "the decision to smash it instead was one I oppose then and still do."
Gizzi reached Rushdie by participating in the Washington Post's chatroom, in which the best-selling author was featured two days after his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown, was reviewed in the Post Book World. Recalling Rushdie's 1987 book, The Jaguar Smile, which was widely considered a favorable portrait of Ortega's Marxist-Leninist regime, and the novelist's 1986 visit with . . .
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Nobody said he was smart.
he WAS right about the Koran being "The Satanic Verses"
Rushdie is an excellent writer and his earlier book dissected Islam for what it is....A sham religion and a discredit to humanity....No wonder the leaders of this horror of a cult want him dead!!!For that alone, in my view, he is allowed some disagreeable comment.
wouldn't re-election imply that he was once already elected?
If only he would research Communists as thoroughly as he researched Islam.
What a confused man. Sad.
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