Salman Rushdie-finally got him

[Marmalade]

Without going into religion (too much) we have a sizeable minority of a certain belief system that still thinks murder is acceptable if someone challenges their fairy tale. We have a bigger minority who celebrate pregnant virgins.

France legislated to keep religion out of the legislature and stupidly allow it only in the name of ‘tolerance’. Due to their sins abroad (a bit like the U.K.) they have an unfortunately very sizeable minority bent on murder in the name of fairytales.

America says do what you like but pay for it yourself. Mr Rushdie, a multiple award-winning atheist, seemed not to know when he was well-off living in Britain and domiciled in the Land of the Free Fuckups where, like John Lennon in a way, some retard attempted to kill him. His assassin was probably religiously motivated: yet, as everyone knows, you don’t have to be an out-and-out atheist to get murdered in America (but apparently it helps). 

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Honestly;?if there’s a fatwa on you, America is hardly the best place to go and be “free”…

[Bummer]

You are free to say it though.

Yep you are free in this country : go live in Russia or the Middle East and try and say what you think : you won’t come back with both hands and possibly private parts 😀😀

[Marmalade]

Yep you are free in this country : go live in Russia or the Middle East and try and say what you think : you won’t come back with both hands and possibly private parts 😀😀

Actually the commie countries are probably a good bet for slagging off the Guardian of the 40 virgins. Of course, call Xi or Putin a cunt and you’re probably fucked. None of the ‘stab him multiple times and hope he”s dead’. Far more professional. Novi choke on that.

The guy was an amateur. An American schoolboy would have planned it better.

For democracy and freedom from terrorists combined I’d opt for somewhere like Iceland. But Britain was safer for Rushdie than America. He was given security here.

[timsussex]

I've tried reading that book half a dozen times and given up on the basis of "too difficult, too boring".
His non-standard approach to punctuation makes Joyce's Ulysses seem easy in comparison.
Personally I've long thought he should have been in court for attempting to undermine and sabotage the English language

It appears that you, me and the alleged attacker have at least one thing in common - only reading a couple of pages

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It appears that you, me and the alleged attacker have at least one thing in common - only reading a couple of pages

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All I can say is he’s not to my taste. He’s a skilled writer and made a name for himself long before the fatwa. Midnight’s Children is turned on it’s head halfway through the novel. For me, it was like the author praising his own technique. I’d read half the book and was then more or less told that the story my imagination had invested in was fallacious. I paid good money for a yarn, not to admire the author.

On the other hand I’ve listened to his political analyses in radio interviews and I thought they were quite good. I would like to have had a drink with the man —preferably pre-fatwa.

Yet part of what his life now stands for and for which he will probably be remembered is drawing attention to the horror of modern day extremist (but official) Islam. Sad to say he is on the receiving end but that I suppose is also an achievement. A modern day martyr for freedom of speech and a more articulate one than Charlie Hebdo.