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    Rushdie’s brave example

    Aug 21, 2022 2 minutes
    ANDREW ANTHONY

    he attempted murder of Salman Rushdie took place more than 5600km from London, but its reverberations were felt here just as strongly as if it had happened in Hyde Park. For more than three decades, and certainly his most eventful decades, he lived in London, where he was a familiar figure at literary parties, both before and after Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued his

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