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sportsignoramus: It’s over. Free speech is effectively gone. If Richard Dawkins, who spent a large amount if his long life arguing for it, won’t speak about the stabbing of his friend, Salman Rushdie, because he’s afraid of professional or personal repercussions, or death, no one can. Crazy won
fleonyleon: “In this way Pampa learned the lesson every creator must learn, even God himself: Once you had created your characters, you had to be bound by their choices. You were no longer free to remake them according to your own desires. ”
Victory City
Salman Rushdie
Martand777: Renowned British evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins refuses to speak on the Piers Morgan show - on the ISIS bride Shamima Begum, novelist Salman Rushdie and also the threats to his own life, amidst the growing Islamist threats in UK.
kloockheria: Why would Dawkins even be shy to talk about this? Salman Rushdie is right. The conservative is right.
fleonyleon: 30% done with Victory City, by Salman Rushdie
JulieHowlin: "A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument." Salman Rushdie. 10 quotes which sum up Brexit.
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geekysilk: Iranian youth are risking their lives by not wearing a hijab, eating in public in Ramadan, and taking to the streets in protest of the IR; but prominent, well-thought-of atheist activists in the west are too scared to even condemn the attack on Salman Rushdie.
What a world huh
MarkAGunnells: "Yes, write what you know. But if you want to tell a story well, increase what you know." -Salman Rushdie
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Kyuss85150466: Mr Bean Salman Rushdie hybrid - made with NightCafe Creator
SimSilverAgatka: That Salman Rushdie dude had it coming. Words have consequences, innit?
“Women need to accept male violence is a natural consequence of their attempts to gather in public to speak to one another. Women who talk are responsible for whatever men do to them.”
Dr Rawiri Taunui, 2023
taylatzi: “… you will live just long enough to witness both your success and your failure,…” - Salman Rushdie in Victory City
RicardoGAlves: So Salman Rushdie got what he deserved?
And the cartoonists from Charlie Hebdo were asking for it?
And JK Rowling should be punched or worse?
Alexmram: Remember in 2020 when Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and a bunch of other prominent authors signed a letter defending JK Rowling? We should check in with them now. Just to see how they’re feeling about the “let fascism speak no matter what” thing.
petetaylor97: Violence is the answer to speech.
What a shameful thing to say.
More than that, what an historical illiterate thing to say.
Salman Rushdie was stabbed and left fighting for his life because the attitudes of knuckle draggers like you.
Shame on you.
zhinxy_vs_media: I don't know why they call Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children "magical realism. " As a hard magic system, the gifts leave much to be desired... And let's not even mention GGM and 100 Years of Solitude. At least Rushdie TRIED.
DanteScarpetta: Salman Rushdie Revisits “The Wizard of Oz” | The New Yorker
Aagan86: On page 84 of 352 of Victory City, by Salman Rushdie
SandeepSufi: "... now, of course, in love's brutal aftermath, when memory was reinvented as pain, ..." Salman Rushdie in Fury
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TalhaIntrouble: Salman Rushdie wrote a fictitious piece in his Satanic Verses about a girl Ayesha who presumably leads his village people to the Arabic Sea. That piece was most likely inspired by this incident of Naseem Fatima.
fleonyleon: 20% done with Victory City, by Salman Rushdie
tariqlatif42: The preeminent Salman Rushdie fact for those that don’t know …
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UltraGunner64: I hope Chuck Wendig goes through even a fraction of the shit Salman Rushdie did. It's what he deserves.
pilotopedia: Book Review - The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
JakeSullivan46: The attack on Salman Rushdie is appalling. We’re all praying for his speedy recovery. And we’re thankful to good citizens and first responders for helping him so swiftly.
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delerepress1: 1001, the number of night, of magic, of alternative realities — a number beloved of poets and detested by politicians, for whom all alternative versions of the world are threats ...
~ salman rushdie, 'midnight's children'
jfwearspink: 1001, the number of night, of magic, of alternative realities — a number beloved of poets and detested by politicians, for whom all alternative versions of the world are threats ...
~ salman rushdie, 'midnight's children'
NightingaleA6: "I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began."
Salman Rushdie
jfwearspink: children, however magical, are not immune to their parents …
~ salman rushdie, ‘midnight’s children’
Billydough: Andy Ngo is the Salman Rushdie of twitter. The people he’s unmaking are very dangerous and this must take great courage.
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jimmyroybloom: In Iran, backers of Salman Rushdie attack speak out | South China Morning Post
justacoverband: The flippityflorp star war wars man is gonna have to live like Salman Rushdie lol
SofiaDanes: 4 of 5 stars to Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
SouljaBoymoder: Can you imagine Chuck Wendig gets hunted down like Ahmed Salman Rushdie but instead of it being because his books are provocative and well written it’s because nobody likes him and he burned the Library of Alexandria
undafiend: my introduction to Rupi Kaur was hearing a group of young white women (who were expected to like her) just ripping her into oblivion, and now people will think she's Salman Rushdie
rajasir: Shame (Summary) Salman Rushdie
lifenursingcare: The Defiance of Salman Rushdie - The New Yorker
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AgnesGyorke: Excited to see my chapter on Rushdie and globalization published in this terrific new volume!
BBFSBBBPPP: Quite.
Can you imagine people who feel permitted to JP abuse/edit/'tweak' literature, will be gaslighting children next and they will feel more than ENTITLED to do it.
senaparna: Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator. Feel outraged & devastated at the same time. The world will not forgive the religious bigot who committed this terrible crime! If Rushdie dies, a most powerful literary voice will have been silenced & the forces of darkness will have won.
MohebRobab: The Defiance of Salman Rushdie
mazadohta: “life is a ball that we hold in our hands. It is for us to decide what game to play with it.” - Salman Rushdie, Victory City.
MythinformedMKE: Who would’ve thought that a blonde British gal would be on-a-par with Salman Rushdie, and need personal security at an airport?
All for simply asserting:
women are women
transwomen are transwomen
There's a difference, and that's ok
Jonatha54148924: Salman Rushdie: The 60 Minutes Interview (1990)
Banned_Angel_17: -17 -233 -13ALERT!
am i the pale horse rider written in book of revelations?
I did a -17 -233 -13 magic spell by burning the book “the satanic verses”:
RamonSomoza1: Until you know who you are you can?t write. Salman Rushdie
1995hoo: A very interesting thought from Salman Rushdie (and I’m not citing it for any political purpose, I just found it really interesting).
jfwearspink: a little uncertainty is no bad thing. cocksure men do terrible deeds. women, too …
~ salman rushdie, ‘midnight’s children’
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trutherbotprop: "A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb... But we are not helpless... We can sing the truth and name the liars... we must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants."
--Salman Rushdie
AISHAKA03977487: Salman Rushdie, author of the book "Gemini Sun and Moon" was stabbed in the back by an unknown assailant on February 14th, 1989. The attack occurred shortly after Rushdie had finished a speech at a cultural center in Melbourne, Australia.
b2l_Literature: Consistent acclaim: Salman Rushdie's previous novel Quichotte was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has sold 60k+ copies to date. : Victory City
cybertosser: To quote Salman Rushdie, Pakistan was/is an "insufficiently imagined" state.
philosophytweet: "Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible." - Salman Rushdie
RamonSomoza1: A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
teroterotero: Oh wow, Sanna Marin speaks at NYU commencement where they honor Salman Rushdie and Misty Copeland
chaubey___09: Yesterday in library I saw a guy was reading a Satanic Verses of Salman Rushdie. He was having a paperback. I was impressed
b2l_Cartoon: Namwali and her first novel, The Old Drift, received the most astonishing praise: 'a writer on the world stage' Salman Rushdie; 'this woman was born to write!' Alexandra Fuller; 'among the most distinctive and exciting writers to emerge in ...
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BernhardStaeber: I am not a big fan of allegories, they always remind me of oven-ready meal. Nevertheless I enjoyed Salman Rushdie's new novel "Victory City" for those parts where he goes beyond the social allegory, telling a lavish, compelling story and giving us characters to root for.
cacildanc: After a near-fatal stabbing—and decades of threats—the novelist speaks about writing as a death-defying act. | The New Yorker
aronsaidwhat: Has anyone checked in on Salman Rushdie?
PPuzhu: Salman Rushdie is overrated. Nobody would have read Satanic Verses had it not been for the brouhaha. It was tedious and meh. Like the rest of them.
snopes: We looked for evidence of author Salman Rushdie saying these words, but found none.
NewYorker: A Profile of the author Salman Rushdie, whose recent book “Victory City”—his 16th since a fatwa was issued against him—is an affirmation of the power of storytelling.
hkutpat: 4 of 5 stars to Victory City by Salman Rushdie
fly_dervish: The “Salman Rushdie” of Italian Food contends that most “Italian food” was invented either in the States or in post war Italy:
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simplySAV: Marked as to-read: Shame by Salman Rushdie
Baithak_0: Another handler who recently came to fore in IK’s support is Former British Ambassador, turned HR activist Craig Murray. He belongs to the junta of International HR org, the Jewish lobby and media who condemned reactionary attks on blasphemy by Charlie Hebdo & Salman Rushdie...
NBmagazineUK: Featuring:
1. Priscilla Morris, author of Black Butterflies, on Resolution.
2. A Conversation with Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls and Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, author of Dust Child.
3. A retrospective on Salman Rushdie and a thought-piece on
nyunews: Before the formal commencement ceremony, Salman Rushdie will receive a Presidential Medal from NYU president Andrew Hamilton.
hasudi: Excuse me while I coffee.......
"Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect."
~Salman Rushdie~
dialectichiphop: However, the new atheist movement post-9/11, spearheaded by the likes of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, along with Salman Rushdie, was an intellectualism that went beyond mere theological critique, and was aggressively combative, that dehumanized Muslims in particular.
JohnSisak: “Revelations that famed British author Roald Dahl’s beloved children's novels have been rewritten to reflect secular-progressive dogma have drawn condemnation from a diverse wave of British notables , from author Salman Rushdie to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak…”
xosmer_chiyako: Salman Rushdie, who was attacked by Islamist terrorists because of the book Satanic Verses, has been severely injured in one of her eyes.
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TheRakyMule: Are you being offended?
Then here's a quote by Salman Rushdie to brighten up your day.
WoeToChorazin: What was the last novel you read? I’m making my way through Salman Rushdie’s new book, “Victory City,” and it’s really good.
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AmbViswanathan: The Week magazine publishes my review of Salman Rushdie's novel "Victory City"
ApostateRidvan: Muslims react to the brutal murder attempt on Salman Rushdie. 1
ApostateRidvan: BREAKING: This is the book that radicalized the attacker of Salman Rushdie.
JoannaZajacz: After a near-fatal stabbing—and decades of threats—Salman Rushdie speaks about writing as a death-defying act.
kumrutoktamis: Salman Rushdie in defiance
The Defiance of Salman Rushdie
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sillymickel: FnG FM/12 epigram] “…in particular, being burned to death at the stake. In our own day, people come under attack for their beliefs. The author, Salman Rushdie, e.g., was targeted for death for ideas counter to the Muslim faith."
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GayRetard88: Oh you like Salman Rushdie? I like SALMon ANd will RUSH to the Deli so I can Eat some with a bagel
saliltripathi: In Salman Rushdie's novel, The Moor's Last Sigh, Aurora Zogoiby paints an amazing canvas called "The Kissing of Abbas Ali Baig."
