After Salman Rushdie bows out of grad speech at center-right college, questions linger

After Salman Rushdie bows out of grad speech at center-right college, questions linger

ANALYSIS: ‘This decision was his alone and completely beyond our control’ Why did Salman Rushdie, famed author of “The Satanic Verses” and radical Islam’s most famous heretic, abruptly bow out of speaking at Claremont McKenna College’s graduation ceremony—and did he make the right decision? The answer to both questions depends on who you ask. On May 13, college President Hiram Chodosh… Source

More than 36 years ago, the then Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for the murder of the British author Salman Rushdie. Just under three years ago, a man tried to implement this death sentence, attacked the writer on an open stage with a knife. Rushdie survived badly. The perpetrator was now attacked by a court in the U.S. state of New York...