CW: Violence
Update 20:00 EST :
Hours after he was attacked and stabbed, author Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm, and an eye he was likely to lose, his agent said.
CW: Violence
Update 20:00 EST :
Hours after he was attacked and stabbed, author Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm, and an eye he was likely to lose, his agent said.
Considering it’s banned for being hate speech in 11 countries, was widely protested for being hate speech, and resulted in a fatwa for that reason, a fair number of people consider it to be hate speech.
It’s not protested for being hate speech. It’s protested for being blasphemous. These things are not even remotely the same. You have to be pretty fucking fanatical to think that some historical fiction novel is worth the amount of death and disaster that the book has provoked.