Occasionally Salman Rushdie says some very sensible things, and here is one occasion of that: he challenges the egregious George Galloway, who would forbid criticism of Islam and honest discussion of the roots of Islamic terror. “Rushdie dismisses Galloway’s claims,” from The Guardian, with thanks to Danielle: Salman Rushdie clashed with George Galloway yesterday in … Continue reading Rushdie: “Any system of ideas that decides…that you cannot discuss it in fundamental terms, that you can’t say that this bit of it is junk, or that bit is oppressive … we are supposed to respect that?”