Bookish Diversions: Salman Rushdie’s Sin
Free Speech, Ideas Beyond Borders, the Passing of Frederick Buechner and Rodney Stark, Indie Publishing
¶ Robust ideas can tolerate robust debate.
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
—Salman Rushdie, 2005
¶ I tried reading Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses, about fifteen years ago. I was in my e…
