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The 1989 fatwa against him helped trigger a debate that looks different in the rear view mirror
Robert Wright
Sep 16, 2022
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Salman Rushdie and the Clash of Civilizations
The mother of Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed Salman Rushdie last week, characterizes her son this way (as paraphrased in the New York Post): “a basement-dwelling loner who barely worked” and “never had a girlfriend.” The basement he dwelt in was his mother’s. She describes her relationship with him this way: “If I approach him sometimes he says hi, sometimes he just ignores me and walks away…
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