"Salman Rushdie has lived with this threat since 1989. Free speech…

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"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."