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We Ignored Salman Rushdie’s Warning
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We Ignored Salman Rushdie’s Warning
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We live in a culture in which many people 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 stabbed the novelist in the neck on a stage in Western New York. 

Today, as Rushdie recovers from his inj…

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