Every scoundrel claims his words were “taken out of context” when he’s caught out. In this case it’s noteworthy that Khan feels compelled to take the “out of context” defense lest anyone think he actually supports the freedom of speech and Salman Rushdie’s right to live despite having ostensibly offended Islam. Aren’t the Muslims who […]
Oxford prof: Rushdie attack ‘assault on free speech,’ but warns against ‘eagerness to focus on Islamic extremism’
This is the line that the Left has pushed in the media, as well as in intelligence and law enforcement circles, ever since 9/11 (and before that as well): to take much notice of Islamic jihad activity will only fuel “Islamophobic” attacks against innocent Muslims. Therefore, we must not talk about jihad activity. There is […]
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 […]
The American Conservative denounces Rushdie, complains that his book was ‘deliberately insulting to Islam’
Well, that didn’t take long. On Tuesday, I wrote: “So now, because of the attack on Salman Rushdie, Dreher has at least temporarily abandoned his naive kumbaya irenicism and is acknowledging again that there is a jihad threat.” On Thursday, The American Conservative, where Dreher doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus, published this […]