TheEncogitationer

Reg,

Salman Rushdie is a brave and admirable man with or without a Knighthood or any other official honorifics and his defense and praise by The Hitch is an honor in it’s own right.👍👍

I’m just glad no one ever insulted Rushdie with a Pulitzer, an award named after a “yellow journalist” and awarded to the worst of “yellow journalists.’

Jake,

The U.S. Constitution protects the individual right to express ideas and opposing ideas. It does not provide any guarantees of how anyone will feel about any of them.

Unseen,

You’re assuming Rushdie would have held his talk in a place that allowed guns. take it that even where concealed carry is legal, that doesn’t apply to private places. Private places, like bookstores can forbid the carrying of weapons.

There is the annual PorcFest. Lots of booksellers who are also pro-RKBA.

Rushdie is worth $15 mil…

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Davis,

A dream sequence about an 8th Century illiterate sheep-herder/warlord having a dialogue with Satan in a fiction book that no one is required to read is not the same as children compelled by law to attend an institution where they are subjected to bullying and abuse. No. Just no.

Fellow Unbelievers,

Lest anyone forget, the entire 33-year Salman Rushdie story is about the head of a Theocratic Totalitarian State Iran imposing censorship, not merely on it’s own citizens, but from beyond it’s own borders via assassination and terror to a foreign author, his publisher, his translators, his agents, and anyone connected to them…[Read more]

Unseen,

You didn’t answer the question, you dodged it.

No, I gave you an answer you didn’t expect and didn’t like. That the thing about free inquiry. You have a right to do free inquiry, but there’s no guaranteed answer or result.

So, I guess the consensus is that, yeah, sometimes war crimes are okay.

No, I did not say that.

I p…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Sage words in the immediate wake of the attack on Salman Rushdie from the heads of Foundation for Individual Right and Expression:

Salman Rushdie’s Stabbing Shows the Danger of Conflating Words with ‘Violence’
Greg Lukianoff, Robert…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Another update: Rushdie is off the respirator, talking, and joking:

Agent: Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack
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Fellow Unbelievers,

Here’s an update:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/live-updates-author-salman-rushdie-attacked-in-new-york/liveblog/93528252.cms

I hope Rushdie gets a bionic eye, a new liver. and carries on, as a testimony of the superiority of the Secular West over Dark Age Islamic thuggery.

Unseen,

While military forces should not locate among civilians, they may have to locate on the periphery of cities, towns, or other bodies of civilians to keep enemy attacks at bay.

In the course of doing so, enemy fire may hit civilians when it misses the defending military, but in that case, the fault is with the attacking enemy, not the…[Read more]