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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie föddes den 19 juni 1947
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The other thing that prevents people standing up, ... is a kind of cultural defensiveness. The kind of not-washing-your-dirty-linen-in-public argument. That we in the Muslim world are under attack. And, as a result, we put up defenses. And we don't criticize even the worst people in the family. Because if it's your family, and you happen to have an idiot child, you don't tell the world it's an idiot child.

Meanwhile, it seems, the world is suffering from compassion fatigue,

The book is not the crime. The fatwa was the crime,

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it,

antediluvian, who think of homosexuality as ungodly, who have little time for real freedom of expression, who routinely express anti-Semitic views, and who, in the case of the Muslim Diaspora, are -- it has to be said -- in many ways at odds with the cultures among which they live.

many traditional Muslims lead lives apart, inward-turned lives of near-segregation from the wider population.

near-segregation from the wider population.

The world is now so interpenetrated,

And now, as if to finish things off, the Himalayan winter is setting in, and the greatest calamity of all may lie ahead of us, not behind,

After the eastern tsunami and the western hurricanes, this is not incomprehensible. But the people of Kashmir deserve better than they are getting.

What I was trying to show was the creation of extremely violent individuals from people like you and I. Shalimar was a happy, admired performer whose world was smashed, both inside and out. That double fracture provided the fissure for him to slip through.

And now, as if to finish things off, the Himalayan winter is setting in, and the greatest calamity of all may lie ahead of us, not behind.

Oh, I wonder what that might be.

The exclusion of Professor Ramadan illustrates that the Patriot Act and other post 9/11 laws and policies may be serving to increase American isolation at a time when international dialogue is more critical than ever.

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