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Salman Rushdie's Defiance (with David Remnick)
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What Do You Expect When Someone Insults Something You Care About So Much?
I think he feels horrible about it, but quite rightly doesn't think it was his fault. His default of the Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers who carried out these terrible acts. A lot of people in the literary world, in the political world, blamed Salman Rushdie for quote unquote, bringing this upon himself. And I'll be very honest with you. I think some of it was racist. Some of it was that it was a big giant political inconvenience because after all, there were a lot ofPeople in the streets marching against Rushdie and they vote.
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