Rushdie attack stirs thought on free speech
Since a fatwa was issued in 1989 by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s leader, calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie, Rushdie has spoken out against restricting the free exchange of ideas, noting in 2021 that increasingly “being offended is a valid critique….” Kohmeini and other Muslims objected to Rushdie’s novel, “The Satanic Verses” for its portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad. Rushdie’ stabbing last week at a literary event in western New York has reopened