"Salman Rushdie has lived with this threat since 1989.
Free speech isn't just an abstract concern. Many cultures around the world (and a few subcultures in the US) still think that a proper reaction to someone's expression of ideas is murder.
Rushdie was stabbed today, and is in pretty serious condition."
Free speech isn't just an abstract concern. Many cultures around the world (and a few subcultures in the US) still think that a proper reaction to someone's expression of ideas is murder.
Rushdie was stabbed today, and is in pretty serious condition."