The man’s motive couldn’t possibly be clearer. Salman Rushdie has had a death fatwa over his head since 1989. This is just more willful ignorance, a refusal to confront the ugly realities of jihad violence. “Salman Rushdie is attacked onstage in Western New York,” by Jay Root, David Gelles, Elizabeth A. Harris and Julia Jacobs, New York Times, August […]
Rushdie attacker is Hadi Matar, ‘New Jersey man with sympathies toward the Iranian government’
The Post doesn’t mention, of course, why he would want to kill Rushdie, or why he stabbed Rushdie in the neck. Joe Marino and Evan Simko-Bednarski likely don’t know, and if they did, they wouldn’t say. To do so would be “Islamophobic.” “NJ man, Hadi Matar, with sympathies toward Iranian government ID’d as suspect in Salman […]
Pakistani ‘security analyst’ justifies Rushdie stabbing: ‘One sensitive nerve of Muslims you should never poke’
Many in the West, in fact, an increasing number, agree with Zaid Hamid, and think that any criticism or negative portrayal of Islam is “racist” and “Islamophobic,” and should accordingly be silenced. “Indeed, those who malign Allah and his messenger, Allah has cursed them in this world and the hereafter, and has prepared for them […]
Rushdie’s attacker stabbed him in the neck
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4) “Author Salman Rushdie ‘stabbed in neck’ on lecture stage in New York,” ITV, August 12, 2022: Indian-British author Sir Salman Rushdie has suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck and been airlifted to hospital after he was attacked on stage in New York. Sir […]
Salman Rushdie stabbed
The Iranian death fatwa is still in effect, and of course Iran is now emboldened by Biden’s weakness and appeasement.
Salman Rushdie: ‘I’m afraid Cat Stevens got off the peace train a long time ago’
Yes, but no one cares. Jihadis and their enablers and sympathizers aren’t vilified, marginalized, derided and shunned today; they’re celebrated. Only foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression get that treatment. As recently as 2010, there was published on YouTube a nasheed in which the author of “Peace Train” sang: “I’m praying to Allah to give us victory […]
Fiction in a Time of Lies
As the “Satanic Verses Affair” was ramping up, an influential Muslim spokesperson approached Salman Rushdie with a request that the author put a notification on the cover of The Satanic Verses that this was a novel, and that the story was fiction and not fact. The disappointed spokesperson later complained that despite his having approached […]
Rushdie fatwa issued 30 years today, is still chilling the freedom of speech
Cowardice has overtaken the world, and Western political and media elites can’t bow to Sharia fast enough. That’s the legacy of the Rushdie fatwa. When it was first issued, people in the West were indignant, and defended Rushdie. Now it is taken for granted that people must not offend Islam and transgress Sharia blasphemy laws. […]
Robert Spencer at Breitbart: From Rushdie to Geller: The Steady Erosion of Free Speech
My latest at Breitbart: When the Islamic Republic of Iran called for his death for insulting Islam, Salman Rushdie became an international hero of free speech. Later defenders of this fundamental freedom, however, have not fared as well, as I show in my new book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies). […]
Those Who Have Differed
“We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.” — Charles Caleb Colton, 1825 Nothing brings the unpleasant truths of a thing to light as much as the apologetics constructed to conceal them. If it is true that “a crooked tree casts a crooked shadow,” it […]