According to the Associated Press, Salman Rushdie was stabbed at a Chautauqua, NY event where he was set to deliver a lecture: An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Ch…

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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.

    • Praksis [any]
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      2 years ago

      hot take but people shouldn't be stabbed over shit like this, jesus christ.

    • Ziege_Bock [any]
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      2 years ago

      Who in their right mind considers The Satanic Verses as hate speech? lol.

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        2 years ago

        Let alone 550 pages of it. When I read it I was shocked at how little page-time the Muhammad part takes up.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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.

        • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I don't know about you, but I'd take any determination of hate speech from a country with blasphemy laws with a grain of salt.

          • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            its not Relevant what EmmaGoldmann or Ziege_Bock think about it , its Relevant what Iran and 10 other Countries thinks about it...

            I have not Read it ..

              • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                It's banned in India, Bangladesh, Sudan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Thailand, Tanzania, Indonesia, Singapore, and Venezuela.

                • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  It's not banned in South Africa I can literally buy it right now.

                  https://www.exclusivebooks.co.za/search?keyword=9780963270702

                  It was banned during apartheid by the apartheid government in 1988. No longer banned. Ban lifted in 2002 by the ANC

          • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I have not read it, nor do I have any interest in doing so. However, that's not the point. My point is that it's insane to equate animosity towards what people feel is hate speech and homophobia as being functionally the same thing.