DISCUSSIONThe great, big “Link the attack on Salman Rushdie to something other than Islam, and tell us why it’s really a good thing” game.

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but for a maximum score you would have had to tell us why the attack was ackchully a good thing.

I've been seeing an awful lot of "I'm not saying he deserved it, but if he hadn't written the Satanic Verses this wouldn't have happened" takes from the expected crowd.

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“I’m not saying the BIPOC victim of colonialism atheist ex-Muslim deserved to be stabbed, but if he had just kept his dirty apostate mouth shut…” - the progressive take.

Have you noticed that the BBC cannot bring itself to refer to Rushdie as Sir Salman or call him British, despite him being British since birth. They keep calling him Mr Rushdie and “Indian-born”. Despite Rushdie expressing great pride in receiving his knighthood.