‘Truth, courage, resilience’: Biden hails Salman Rushdie after attack

Photograph: Booker Prizes/PAPhotograph: Booker Prizes/PAA day after Salman Rushdie’s stabbing in western New York, Joe Biden on Saturday issued“Truth. Courage. Resilience. The ability to share ideas without fear,” the president’s statement added about Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after a former leader ofput out a call for the writer’s death over one of his novels. “These are the building blocks of any free and open society.

Rushdie suffered three stabs wounds to the right front of his neck, another four to his stomach, one each to his right eye and chest, and a cut to his right thigh, the local district attorney, Jason Schmidt, said Saturday. The fatwa – well before Matar was born – was in retribution for Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. Many Muslims interpreted the Indian-born author’s book as blasphemous because it included a character they found insulting to the prophet Muhammad, the founder of their faith.

Just wondering if some Muslim authors were to write the same stuff about Christianity and Jesus, what will he and these western double-standard hypocrites say!

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