https://www.yahoo.com/news/salman-rushdie-author-attacked-stage-new-york-lecture-153634682.html
shareLatest report, he's on a ventilator, damage to his liver, lost one eye.
shareJesus fucking christ. I read that book he got the fatwa for. They made a big deal about nothing. The book is a beautiful surreal story. And i hope he recovers and more people buy it.
shareFor reals. Obviously not advocating fatwas of any sort, but wow, all this because people were ignorant. I guess it's not too unusual. How many ppl get up in arms over a single out-of-context quote, or make judgments based on headlines instead of the actual source material?
shareSo speechless right now. Just fucking speechless
shareYeah. I'm a bit in shock myself. All that pointless death way back then. And now thirty years later, to see this violence happening again, for such a stupid reason...it's crazy.
shareWhy now, I wonder.
shareI saw your comment on page one. Yeah, I think you're on the money.
shareHe let his for guard down for the last few years. Understandably so. Too the point where he was mocking it with larry david on curb. He wanted to move on from the threats.
But terrorists nations gonna terrorizes, when their target countries/free speech legends look weak. Lets go brandon
You may have read the book but you can bet your bottom dollar approximately 0% of these nutcases enraged by it did!
Nor I bet did they read the Ayatollah's actual fatwa:-
I call on all valiant Muslims wherever they may be in the world to kill them without delay, so that no one will dare insult the sacred beliefs of Muslims henceforth.
I'm glad that the piece of shit who did this is still in lockup without bail and hasn't been released without bail. The DA in that town is a conservative. That's probably why.
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