Any speech that offends Iran, or similarly minded regimes such as Russia and China, can now be foreseen to endanger the lives of speakers residing in the United States.
As Wood writes , the honourable response to the attack on Rushdie would have been to admit a failure to protect a brave author and declare that we are all Rushdie now .
Rather than vilification, the honourable response from fellow novelists to the 1989 fatwa condemning Rushdie to death would have been to admit failur
On August 12, 2022, author of the novel, The Satanic Verses, Ahmed Salman Rushdie, was stabbed several times during a public lecture in New York, United States.