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Saturday was not the only time last week that Clinton used the symbolic power of the presidency to defend free speech. Earlier, Clinton met with author Salman Rushdie, whose 1989 book The Satanic Verses earned him a death sentence from Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. President Bush had shunned such meetings, with his press secretary derisively dismissing Rushdie as just another "author promoting his book...
...reversal of Bush Administration policy, Clinton met with Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British writer who is under a death threat from Iran because of his book The Satanic Verses. To minimize any undue provocation of Iran, no pictures of the encounter were taken. Nevertheless, after the meeting the head of Iran's judiciary labeled Clinton "the most hated among Muslims around the world...
...such punditry is wide of the mark. Far from lending support to Middle Eastern despotisms, Said has harshly criticized them. He spoke out (while academe remained largely silent) for Salman Rushdie against the Iranian mullahs and their fatwa: "Those of us from the Moslem part of this world cannot accept the notion that democratic freedoms should be abrogated to protect Islam." He has inveighed against Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez Assad in Syria. The "traditional discourse" of Arab nationalism, he wrote on the eve of the Gulf War, is "unresponsive, anomalous, even comic." The Arab media are "a disgrace...
...literary traditions, tout Phillips as a part of a "new wave of young Black writers," along with novelists like Darryl Pinckney and Charles Johnson. But Phillips says he fits in more with other British writers who were "born in the old empire...People like Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri and Salman Rushdie...In the last ten years or so a lot of British writers have had a fix from another part of the world and have changed the notion of what constitutes British writing quite radically...
...whether the audience sees Joan as divinely inspired or as deeply deranged. The surrounding production by Tony Randall's National Actors | Theater is coarse, often verging on camp. But the play is all too timely. As Joan's judges solemnly denounce the evil of religious heresy, one thinks of Salman Rushdie...