I, like so many others, were horrified by the recent assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie’s life in New York. Just when Salman could finally breathe easily again and NOT have to look over his shoulder, he is brutally stabbed, seemingly in an attempt to vindicate the odious Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa, suborning his murder for money, for the ‘crime’ of writing a novel that deployed holy writ for literary purposes.
The Intifada for The Imagination
The Intifada for The Imagination
The Intifada for The Imagination
I, like so many others, were horrified by the recent assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie’s life in New York. Just when Salman could finally breathe easily again and NOT have to look over his shoulder, he is brutally stabbed, seemingly in an attempt to vindicate the odious Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa, suborning his murder for money, for the ‘crime’ of writing a novel that deployed holy writ for literary purposes.