Stabbing of Salman Rushdie shows that instead of reasoned debate, violence taints public exchanges
For all the obvious tragedy, the news that author Salman Rushdie had been stabbed multiple times by an assailant intent on carrying out the fatwa issued against him by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini 33 years ago also seemed such a throwback.
Like pictures of Nancy Reagan entertaining at the White House, the fatwa seemed to have escaped from old issues of Time magazine...
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