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I am choking with rage that the forces of hate and repression were able to spill the blood of author Rushdie this weekend. This is where attacks on free speech and expression lead us. May Rushdie survive, recover and continue to live and speak, despite his horrible wounds (Liver damage and maybe the loss of an eye.)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/13/us/salman-rushdie-attacked-saturday/index.html
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Very sad, and yes, I am outraged too. Rushdie is an excellent author, and an intelligent essayist.
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Along with being infuriated and sickened by this attack, there's also an element of frustration at how preventable this was. With benefit of hindsight, I note that:
• Rushdie's appearance was publicized well in advance. It would be a lot safer if he made surprise appearances at events promoted to draw his kind of audience, rather than tip off his bloodthirsty enemies of just where he'll be.
• I'm getting the impression from this event that Rushdie travels without so much as one professional bodyguard.
• "The [Chautauqua] institution's leadership had rejected recommendations for basic security measures, including bag checks and metal detectors, fearing that would create a divide between speakers and the audience, according to two sources who spoke with CNN. The leadership also feared that it would change the culture at the institution, the sources said."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/13/us/salman-rushdie-attacked-saturday/index.html
• Western New York State has a population of Muslim immigrants and refugees numbering at least in the tens of thousands. The attacker was from out of state, but he might just as well have been a local. It's not as if this event took place in a part of the world safely isolated from Radical Islamism, if any such places are left.
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Bump to put this above the spam.
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Bump to put this above the spam.
Thank you. This is an important story. I remember debating someone way back in 1989 when the fatwa was first issued about how wrong it is to ask for the death of a writer who offends you somehow. Publish your own rebuttal, but don't fricking murder who you disagree with.
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