The appalling attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on freedom of expression
The appalling stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie while speaking in Chautauqua, New York is a return to the violence that followed Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Rushdie and his book, satanic verses, in 1989. Rushdie was attacked and seriously injured by a 24-year-old man from New Jersey. Little is known about the perpetrator at the time … Read more