Assassination Attempt on Salman Rushdie
On August 13th 2022, the British author Salman Rushdie fell victim to the “fatwa” issued against him 33 years ago, when holding a lecture publicly on stage– a call for murder by the Iranian Ayatollah and then head of state, Khomeini, appeasingly and at the same time mendaciously translated as “legal opinion” by the unisono media (which is not false, taken the strict meaning of the word, but have such “expert opinions” not also been written in the service of the Inquisition and the Nazis concerning Jews and heretics, after all?). The reason given at that time was Rushdie’s novel ‘Satanic Verses’. The assassinator severly injured Rushdie by multiple knife wounds and, most probably, he will lose one of his eyes![1]
The governments of the Western Bloc are responsible for this crime, as they did not send resolute protests against the call for murder and the ban against the ‘Satanic Verses’at that time, as they did not impose sanctions against Iran, which they were so ready to do against Iraq then and against Russia today, as Rushdie was not given the opportunity to defend himself in public, but was smuggled from one hiding place to the other instead for years in a sort of protective custody; as they did not ensure that the‘Satanic Verses’ were translated into as many languages and as quickly as possible and thus made known to a wide public at low cost. Peter Priskil’s work ‘Salman Rushdie – Portrait of a Poet’ published in 1989, remained for many years the only German publication on this issue.
Consequently, since the initial call for murder, there have been and still are numerous more victims of religious fanatics and enemies of the freedom of speech , belly-brushed by a ‘fair’-minded press. We remind of Alaa Hamed, Aziz Nesin and the victims of the Sivas massacre, Taslima Nasrin, Nagib Machfus, Theo van Gogh, Hatun Sürücü, the staff of ‘Charlie Hebdo’ and Mila, to name just a few of them. And what is the reason for this trail of blood, of which we just gave some few examples? The West pampered and continues to pamper Islam, as it is not affected by Enlightenment and thus could and still can be excellently used as a battering ram against the authentic Basic and Human rights, namely those of 1789 (also its enmity against sexuality and its misogyny, stinking as they are, can be exploited to the full after Schwarzer’s and the feminists’ triumph – sex instead of reason –). Back then, the Basic rights were utterly weakened, today they are leveled out in the course of the Corona dictatorship.
Without being able to foresee any details – we are no prophets – we did predict this development.
[1] In an interview in February 2023 he said, he is blind on one eye and severly handicapped in typing due to injury to the left ulnar nerve. He also still is seriously traumatized and has difficulties in writing new texts.
