fattwa calling for his death. rushdie has been outspoken over the years about the impact of that on his life. it is like trying to lead a life with lead boots on. everything that anyone else would take for granted becomes a problem. do you ever feel that you can let down your guard? actually, yes. as you were saying, i do. i ve very much taken the decision in the last several years that the best way that i can what i can do to fight this is to show that in the way that a child shows a bully in the playground i ain t scared of you. reporter: rushdie who was born in mumbai and later moved to the uk lived under british protection for nearly ten years before the iranian government announced it would no longer enforce the fatwa in 1998. he wrote a memoir about his life under the name he used while in
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people like her standing up. it really it s a stunning take down from her. do you think we need to see more of this push back against the fringe right willing to spread lies against anyone who disagrees with them? absolutely. i think that, you know, what who was it that said a light travels halfway across the world before the truth gets its boots on. that was before the internet age. now a lie travels across the world in a matter of milliseconds. and if you don t challenge it, people will believe it. and so i do think it s important to do it and to do it in the way that she did. to say here is who i am. i am not this caricature you re trying to create in order to raise money online. this is who i am. this is what i believe. i believe we should teach history in schools. i believe we should be kind to to children whatever their particular circumstance or background. and yeah, i think there needs to be more of that.