Ep. 178 The costs of offending religious sensitivities
So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
What Happened to Salman Rushdie?
Michael Wolraich: Salman Rushdie was feeling safe after many, many years of this and it only takes one deranged lunatic. You cannot prevent this stuff by preventing the distribution of say his book and paperback or these movies about him or something. That's not how it works. Well, they did get Salman, he survives, but in my understanding, he lost sight in one eye. There was a nerve that was severed, stabbed multiple times. I do remember Michael that at the time of the attack, this was headline news. It was like the lead story on my Apple News app, right? Everyone cared about it. But you recently in a fifth column podcast said you've
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