Ruhollah Khomeini
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Salman Rushdie and the Social Media Fatwa August 18, 2022
The desire to paralyze public discourse by threats, nastiness, and all-round verbal thuggery is the preferred approach of radicals of all shades of opinion on social media, be it Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram....
The Man Onstage With Salman Rushdie August 17, 2022
Henry Reese, who was about to speak with the writer before he was attacked, has made it his life’s work to provide a safe place for endangered writers....
We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning August 16, 2022
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 Rush...
