We Ignored Salman Rushdie’s Warning
Marchers scream out anti-Rushdie chants in Derby, England, on March 15, 1989. (Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
Words are not violence. Violence is violence.
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We live in a culture in which many of the most celebrated people occupying the highest perches believe that words are violence. In this, they have much in common with Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who issued the first fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989, and with Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old who, yesterday, appears to have fulfilled his command w…
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