Less than a year after an attempt on his life, author Salman Rushdie made a rare public appearance at an awards ceremony Thursday to warn of the dangers of banning books and of related movements in the US to roll back freedoms of expression
“The attack on books, the attack on teaching, the attack on libraries, in – how can I put this – Florida, has never been more dangerous, never been more important to fight,” he said. Rushdie spoke at the PEN America Gala in New York City, praising the literary and free speech advocacy group for its latest efforts to block politicians and local officials seeking to ban literature concerning race and gender identity.
Rushdie – the author of the 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims felt provided a sacrilegious look on Islam and led to Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini calling for Rushdie and others to be killed – underwent emergency surgery and lost sight in one eye as a result of the attack. “The true courage was not shown by me,” Rushdie said, adding the people who rushed to save his life “were the heroes.
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