New in PJ Media: The stabbing of Salman Rushdie by an open supporter of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who ingenuously explained that he attacked the famed writer because he “insulted Islam,” has put much of the Leftist intelligentsia in the West in a tough position. For years they’ve been insisting that any criticism of […]
New Yorker: Satanic Verses ‘actually more exploratory than sacrilegious—in no sense an anti-Muslim invective’
It has been fun watching the censorious, authoritarian and Islamophilic Left tie itself into knots defending the freedom of speech it otherwise despises in the wake of the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. This New Yorker piece is a good example. Adam Gopnik asserts that “Rushdie should have been equally invulnerable to persecution had he written […]