To speak hate—be it personal slander, political vitriol, or zealous calls for fatwa, jihad, and intifada—is to court its real-world manifestation.
Since 1989, Salman Rushdie has been proof of this terrible fact, courtesy of the death sentence ordered against him by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini over the author’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.
After years of failed assassination attempts, that threat became a horrifying reality on August 12, 2022, in Chautauqua, New York, when Rushdie was repeatedly stabbed in the neck, face, hand, and stomach by a 24-year-old New Jersey resident and nearly died.
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