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Rushdie rejects Cat Stevens’ claim that he was ‘framed’ when he endorsed Rushdie’s death fatwa for blasphemy

Oct 5, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer 74 Comments

Note the dishonesty. “Islam subsequently clarified that he was not condoning the killing of Rushdie but simply stating that, in the Koran, blasphemy is punishable by death.” That was then. Now his lawyers have issued a statement that says: “Regardless of the interpretation that was put on his statements in 1989, he does not support […]

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Featured, Islamic supremacism, Sharia, Taqiyya, War is deceit Tagged With: Salman Rushdie, Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens

Fiction in a Time of Lies

Mar 17, 2020 1:00 pm By Anjuli Pandavar

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 […]

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Hugh Fitzgerald Tagged With: Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses

BBC blames Salman Rushdie for Muslims who turned to jihad in rage over his “blasphemous” book

Feb 15, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

“It all started with the publication of the Satanic Verses and how people pushed me away. That’s why I always say I am one of Rushdie’s children. I was radicalised by white liberals.” So what is the point that the BBC is trying to make? This: if we would all just submit to Sharia blasphemy […]

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Filed Under: Featured, free speech, United Kingdom, Useful idiots Tagged With: Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

Rushdie fatwa issued 30 years today, is still chilling the freedom of speech

Feb 14, 2019 1:30 pm By Robert Spencer

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. […]

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Filed Under: Featured, free speech Tagged With: Salman Rushdie

Robert Spencer at Breitbart: From Rushdie to Geller: The Steady Erosion of Free Speech

Jul 26, 2017 12:49 pm By Robert Spencer

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). […]

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Filed Under: dhimmitude, Featured, free speech, Robert Spencer Tagged With: Salman Rushdie, The Complete Infidel's Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies)

Those Who Have Differed

May 9, 2017 9:37 am By Michael Devolin

“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 […]

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", Featured Tagged With: Francis Bacon, Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie: “Today, I would be accused of Islamophobia and racism”

Sep 6, 2016 9:48 am By Robert Spencer

Indeed he would be. And he also says: “Instead of responding to attacks against freedom of expression, voices were raised to cry blasphemy and propose compromise with terrorism. There is no blasphemy in a democracy.” That’s right as well: as soon as blasphemy laws are enforced, democracy ceases to exist, for those groups that are […]

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", Featured, free speech Tagged With: Salman Rushdie

Denmark: Royal Theater in Copenhagen cancels “Satanic Verses” play to avoid offending Muslims

May 27, 2016 9:24 am By Robert Spencer

On September 11, 2001, Mohamed Atta told passengers on the hijacked jetliner racing toward the Twin Towers in New York: “Just stay quiet and you’ll be okay….Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you’ll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.” Atta’s words are emblematic of the global […]

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Filed Under: Denmark, dhimmitude, Featured, free speech Tagged With: Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie: world learned “wrong lessons” from his Iran fatwa

Jul 23, 2015 10:51 am By Robert Spencer

“The writer said that the controversy that surrounded the PEN prize to Charlie Hebdo this year convinced him that, if the attacks against ‘The Satanic Verses’ had occurred today, ‘these people would not come to my defence and would use the same arguments against me by accusing me of insulting an ethnic and cultural minority.’” […]

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Featured, free speech, Muhammad cartoons Tagged With: Salman Rushdie

Six PEN members protest award to Charlie Hebdo

Apr 27, 2015 7:21 am By Robert Spencer

“If PEN as a free speech organization can’t defend and celebrate people who have been murdered for drawing pictures, then frankly the organization is not worth the name,” Mr. Rushdie said. And for once, he is right. PEN is supposed to oppose censorship and defend the freedom of speech — except, apparently, when to do […]

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Filed Under: dhimmitude, Featured, free speech, Muhammad cartoons, Useful idiots Tagged With: Charlie Hebdo, Francine Prose, Michael Ondaatje, PEN American Center, Peter Carey, Rachel Kushner, Salman Rushdie, Taiye Selasi, Teju Cole

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