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    Authors on the Salman Rushdie attack: ‘A society cannot survive without free speech’

    Aug 14, 2022 3 minutes

    Authors around the world have emphasised the importance of freedom of speech after the attack on Salman Rushdie on stage at an event in New York on Friday.

    Rushdie, now 75, became a figurehead of free speech after his writings, particularly his novel The Satanic Verses, were considered by some Muslims to be blasphemous, leading to death threats in the 1980s as Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa that called for his death.

    The British-American citizen, who was

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