Salman Rushdie Quotes
Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.
Rushdie, Salman. Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002. Random House, 2002.
Description of those members of the Republican Congressional Caucus who wanted to shut down the government by not appropriating any money. Lemmings are rodents who follow each other even into great danger or death. If some run to a cliff and fall off, the others behind them will follow.
This terrorist and his cadre were Muslims and in the Muslim religion, one who dies defending Islam is a martyr and goes immediately to Paradise where he is given a special place and 72 virgins. The planners and leaders of these Islamic terrorist enterprises somehow never themselves take advantage of the opportunity to become martyrs, but instead recruit gullible young men for the “opportunity.” Husin was killed in a shootout with Indonesian police and the written plan was recovered from his personal computer.
A Fatwa is an Islamic theological legal ruling. Islam has no hierarchy. So this Fatwa is not necessarily binding on any Muslims who do not wish to be bound by it. This is one of the relatively few Islamic theological organizations who have taken a public stand against terrorism.
She is a leading American Arab who is a Syrian expatriate.
He was terminated for this and other criticisms of the Islamic fundamentalists. This statement, although very subtle by Western standards, was considered inappropriate since it could be interpreted to criticize some of the clergy.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His work, combining magical realism with historical fiction, is primarily concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, with much of his fiction being set on the Indian subcontinent.
