
Salman Rushdie and the fatwa
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The Failure of Liberals to Speak Out
The campaign against the might off the u.K. Government at that time, was to try and engage the support of other countries around the world. We went to the nordy countries first, and then we eventually went to canada and too, to france, germany,. Getting parliamentarians and writers on board made it very difficult for the brits to subturn notson. And i think what's really important is that there is still an attempt by so many people, including governments, to suppress new ideas as being dangerous or offensive. Whereaswhat we need are words however outrageous they may be in our own language. The right of a writer to write what he wishes
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