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  1. Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie in 2022 convicted of federal terrorism charges
    By Associated Press

    Jury found Hadi Matar, who is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence, guilty of all charges against him

    theguardian.com/books/2026/jul

    #SalmanRushdie #Law #LawUS #Books #UScrime #USnews #TheGuardian #AssociatedPress

  2. A quotation from Salman Rushdie

    Great art, or, let’s just say, more modestly, original art is never created in the safe middle ground, but always at the edge. Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows or other such entities. It can be shocking, or ugly, or, to use the catch-all term so beloved of the tabloid press, controversial. And if we believe in liberty, if we want the air we breathe to remain plentiful and breathable, this is the art whose right to exist we must not only defend, but celebrate. Art is not entertainment. At its very best, it’s a revolution.

    Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian novelist
    Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York City

    More about this quote: wist.info/rushdie-salman/85205…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #salmanrushdie #art #controversy #creativity #edginess #freedomofexpression #liberty #originality

  3. Salman Rushdie testifies at terrorism trial of man convicted of stabbing him
    By Associated Press

    Author testified for second time about near-killing four years ago during event at New York amphitheater

    theguardian.com/books/2026/jul

    #SalmanRushdie #USjusticesystem #UScrime #USnews #NewYork #LawUS #TheGuardian #AssociatedPress

  4. Salman Rushdie attacker faces US terrorism trial
    By Emma Loffhagen

    Hadi Matar, already serving 25 years for attempted murder, denies federal charges that could bring a life sentence

    theguardian.com/books/2026/jul

    #Books #SalmanRushdie #Culture #UScrime #USnews #TheGuardian #EmmaLoffhagen

  5. A quotation from Salman Rushdie

    At its most effective, the censor’s lie actually succeeds in replacing the artist’s truth. That which is censored is thought to have deserved censorship. Boat-rocking is deplored.

    Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian novelist
    Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York City

    More about this quote: wist.info/rushdie-salman/85000…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #salmanrushdie #censor #censorship #justdeserts #label #makingtrouble #outrage #rockingtheboat #troublemaker

  6. Salman Rushdie Says America Is ‘Having a Very Difficult Moment’ With Free Speech as He Accepts Liberatum Award: ‘The Burden of Proof Must Always Lie on the Censor’
    #Variety #Asia #Global #News #SalmanRushdie

    variety.com/2026/global/news/s

  7. A quotation from Salman Rushdie

    When censorship intrudes on art, it becomes the subject; the art becomes “censored art,” and that is how the world sees and understands it. The censor labels the work immoral, or blasphemous, or pornographic, or controversial, and those words are forever hung like albatrosses around the necks of those cursed mariners, the censored works. The attack on the work does more than define the work; in a sense, for the general public, it becomes the work.

    Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian novelist
    Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York City

    More about this quote: wist.info/rushdie-salman/84903…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #salmanrushdie #art #censorship #defamation #filter #framing #label #literature

  8. AP Was There: Millions of mourners attended funeral of Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

    EDITOR’S NOTE: On June 6, 1989, millions of Iranians turned out in the streets to bury Ayatollah Ruhollah…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AhmadKhomeini #AliKhamenei #breakingnews #Elections #Iran #Religion #RuhollahKhomeini #SalmanRushdie #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
    newsbeep.com/622024/

  9. AP Was There: Millions of mourners attended funeral of Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

    EDITOR’S NOTE: On June 6, 1989, millions of Iranians turned out in the streets to bury Ayatollah Ruhollah…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AhmadKhomeini #AliKhamenei #breakingnews #Elections #Iran #Religion #RuhollahKhomeini #SalmanRushdie #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
    newsbeep.com/622017/

  10. A quotation from Salman Rushdie

    The creative act requires not only freedom but also this assumption of freedom. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. If he is afraid of the consequences of his choice of subject or of his manner of treatment of it, then his choices will not be determined by his talent, but by fear. If we are not confident of our freedom, then we are not free.

    Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian novelist
    Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York City

    More about this quote: wist.info/rushdie-salman/84768…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #salmanrushdie #pen #art #artist #censorship #creation #creativity #fear #freedom #selfcensorship #subjectmatter #worry #writer #writing

  11. Salman Rushdie Discusses His 2022 Knife Attack & Explains Why He Isn’t Interested In “Polemical Fiction” At The Babell Literary Festival
    #News #BabellLiteraryandCulturalFestival #SalmanRushdie

    deadline.com/2026/06/salman-ru

  12. My "Pulitzer" sees the light of day eventually...

    for Sylvia Plath in memoriam, a fellow "tortured poet"

    A neat and brief "compare and contrast" from myself, Jonathan. Quality above quantity.

    #booktok #bookstagram #books #pamelapaul #salmanrushdie