One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.Salman Rushdie
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.Salman Rushdie
Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.Salman Rushdie
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.Salman Rushdie
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.Salman Rushdie
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.Salman Rushdie
The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.Salman Rushdie
