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September 23, 2012

Rekindling Rushdie

Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Post

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As the world braces for more outbreaks of Muslim vengeance for perceived religious insults, there are new twists in author Salman Rushdie’s saga, which in 1989 brought fanatic Islamism’s intolerance to the Free World’s attention. Iran’s ayatollahs seized upon Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses to launch a global campaign to silence freedom of expression and to have whatever is put out in the public domain effectively submit to Islamic censorship.

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TAGGED: Clash of Civilizations, Islam, Salman Rushdie

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