Posts Tagged: Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie Attack Suspect Charged with Attempted Murder
Hadi Matar, the suspect in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at an event in New York state, has been charged with attempted murder and...
Hezbollah Official Says Group Does Not Know Anything about Attack on Rushdie
An official from Iran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said on Saturday the group had no additional information on the stabbing attack against novelist Salman Rushdie. “We...
Iran’s Hardline Newspapers Praise Salman Rushdie’s Attacker
Several hardline Iranian newspapers poured praise on Saturday on the person who attacked and seriously wounded author Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” had...
Author Salman Rushdie Attacked on Stage at Event in New York
Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who was ordered killed by Iran in 1989 because of his writing, was attacked on stage at an event in...
30 Years Later, the Rushdie Fatwa Is Still Chilling Speech
Thirty years ago, on February 14, 1989, the Iranian cleric and politician Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini formulated his famous fatwa against British author Salman Rushdie. Khomeini sentenced...
Controversial Lessons for America From Europe’s Immigrant Wave
Douglas Murray has long voiced his concern about the growing influence of Muslim culture on the West. The associate editor of Britain's Spectator, a frequent contributor to...
Salman Rushdie’s Fatwa 25 Years Later
Twenty-five years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini brought his edict down on Salman Rushdie. Iran's revolutionary leader objected to the author's magical-realist novel The Satanic Verses because of...
Sochi Olympics: Remembering Sergei Magnitsky
On the eve of the Sochi Olympics, over 200 writers from around the world - including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya -...
A Muhammad Cartoon a Day
When Salman Rushdie mocked Islamic sanctities in 1989 in his magical realist novel The Satanic Verses, Ayatollah Khomeini did something shockingly original: He pronounced a death...
Innocence of Religion
The pathetically incompetent film "Innocence of Muslims" has sparked off the usual and predictable riots and murder around Muslim streets and illustrates perfectly the cultural chasm...
Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?
Now there are threats of violence directed against France for the publication of a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammad in violation of Islamic law. This...
Rushdie Cancels Literary Event in Wake of Islamist Threats
An Indian Islamist leader is hailing Salman Rushdie's decision to cancel an appearance at a literary festival due to death threats as "a victory for...
Writers Should Wake Up Early
As a glutton for torture (and as a recent parent, which is kind of the same thing), I've been taking advantage of early mornings. My kids...
