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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

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Sep 25, 2026

Glynn WashingtonHOST
3:48
How you gonna bring the verses of the devil into my Christian home?" "Mom, um, Satanic Verses is, is not what you think it is.
Glynn WashingtonHOST
3:57
It's a book by Salman Rushdie, and he wrote-" "I know what the verses of Satan are, boy.
Glynn WashingtonHOST
4:03
And your Satanic Verses are gonna burn, just like the rest of these books." "Mama, Mama, Mama.
Glynn WashingtonHOST
4:08
Leave my books alone.
Jamie FranklinHOST
16:58
That doesn't sound to me the most outrageous thing to say.
Jamie FranklinHOST
17:00
But the thing about it is he made those comments about bin Laden in response to Salman Rushdie.
Jamie FranklinHOST
17:08
I think it was to him being knighted, I think it was.
Jamie FranklinHOST
17:10
So he basically said that...
Onkar GhateGUEST
26:13
So it's and if you take I mean, we're just commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9-11.
Onkar GhateGUEST
26:20
If you think of Rushdie's publication of the satanic versus pre 9-11, or if you think of the Danish cartoons after 9-11, notice they both could publish them.
Onkar GhateGUEST
26:32
So it's not censorship in that sense that the government says you can't publish this, but censorship.
Onkar GhateGUEST
26:38
Yes.
Onkar GhateGUEST
26:39
Rushdie publishes the satanic verses.
Onkar GhateGUEST
26:42
He gets calls for assassination.
Onkar GhateGUEST
26:44
A foreign government puts a bounty on his head.
TerrenceHOST
57:11
uh why why why
JayHOST
57:15
Then we see a scene of this woman coming up to Lakeith Stanfield as he's reading Salman Rushdie, which I thought was interesting.
JayHOST
57:25
And she's like, oh, my God, I need to be with you.
JayHOST
57:28
You're so amazing or whatever.
Eliot CohenHOST
5:21
And the award was the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation.
Eliot CohenHOST
5:31
Alas, there was an outcry, according to the Telegraph, that the Pakistan Ulema Council of Scholars, of which Mr. Ashrafi is the head, awarded Osama bin Laden its highest honor in retaliation for the British government giving Salman Rushdie a knighthood in 2007.
Eliot CohenHOST
5:51
And in fact...
Eliot CohenHOST
5:55
Mr. Ashrafi is on record praising bin Laden as a Muslim warrior.
Mark StephensGUEST
18:06
And it's rare.
Mark StephensGUEST
18:08
So I had it done for Sir Salman Rushdie, where it was a book about him and it was entirely false or pretty much false.
Mark StephensGUEST
18:16
But we got that at the printer's door.
Mark StephensGUEST
18:20
It hadn't actually shipped into the shops.
Dan RathHOST
43:06
... it's like-
Damien PowerHOST
43:07
Like Salman Rushdie.
Dan RathHOST
43:08
Yeah.
Damien PowerHOST
43:08
Someone kill Salman Rushdie.
Damien PowerHOST
43:09
[laughs]
Dan RathHOST
43:09
And it's like, you know on Air Tasker they list a job?
Dan RathHOST
43:21
You get like a notification.
Damien PowerHOST
43:22
Mm.
Mike SlaterCORRESPONDENT
2:52
Hafiz Mohammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi gave him an award for his interfaith cooperation.
Mike SlaterCORRESPONDENT
3:00
Turns out this fella, when England knighted Salman Rushdie, who said things about Muhammad that made many Muslims, in his words, "feel hurt," he said it would be like Muslims giving the highest military honor to Osama bin Laden.
Mike SlaterCORRESPONDENT
3:15
She has since revoked the award.
Mike SlaterCORRESPONDENT
3:17
I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith.
Dan WoottonHOST
5:04
And breaking today, John Cleese, targeted by increasingly radical and organized Islamists in Birmingham, who want the comedian to be banned, along with Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe, from cities in the UK with a Muslim population.
Dan WoottonHOST
5:18
as he fares a Salman Rushdie attempt on his life and receives backing from those on the right, from Tommy Robinson to Andrew Neil, as guess what? His old leftist friends stay mum.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:32
John Cleese, we heard that you're coming to Birmingham Town Hall to perform this so-called comedy show.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:37
For years, you've used your platforms to attack Islam, spreading dangerous misinformation and creating hostility towards Muslims.

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Dan WoottonHOST
11:04
But now let's go.
Dan WoottonHOST
11:10
Nobody is safe from the Islamist takeover of the disunited kingdom, not even octogenarian cantankerous comedy legends with an equal opportunity policy for taking the piss out of religions from Christianity to Islam.
Dan WoottonHOST
11:22
That is why John Cleese felt he was taking his life into his own hands as he performed in Birmingham, ground zero of Muslim Britain, fearing he was about to experience the same fate as Salman Rushdie after a despicable campaign by the Islamist pressure group's Five Pillars and DNFeed.
Dan WoottonHOST
11:42
Two groups, by the way, that the mainstream media refused to expose despite their increasingly toxic presence in what is meant to still be a Christian country.
Brian McGlincheyGUEST
37:07
So far they've drawn that distinction.
Scott HortonHOST
37:09
Yeah, I mean, they put a death warrant on that guy Salman Rushdie because he wrote a book they don't like.
Scott HortonHOST
37:15
And, you know, if the next Ayatollah decides he wants to escalate things, he could.
Brian McGlincheyGUEST
37:23
Yeah, this points to another aspect of the sanctions regime that in addition to the suffering it inflicts abroad, it inspires terrorism against our own citizens.

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