GRANDSTAND. “What the attack on Salman Rushdie says about us”

7:00 p.m., August 20, 2022 Éric Delbecque, expert in internal security, former deputy director of security at Charlie Hebdoauthor of Permanent insecurity (Éditions du Cerf), denounces in a forum the Western impotence to protect its citizens and their freedom of expression, highlighted by the aggression suffered by Salman Rushdie. Here is his platform: “Salman Rushdie … Read more

Alaa El Aswany: “Salman Rushdie has proven that the pen beats the knife”

“I am an atheist… The causes that led me to it are numerous: scientific, philosophical, or personal, but I assure you that atheism gives me a spiritual peace as total as that of faith in the minds of believers. . » This was not written by a Westerner, but in an article published in 1937 … Read more

Attack against Salman Rushdie: why his book “The Satanic Verses” earned him a death fatwa

It was in 1988 that the life of the British writer, of Indian origin, changed. That year, he released his fourth novel: Satanic Verses. The story of this book is complex and mixes many elements, both based on real facts rather than fiction. It earned its author the Whitbread Prize, formerly the Costa Prize, one … Read more

Salman Rushdie or what does he know about a God of love who murders a writer

A smell of grass soaked by the semen of the night intoxicates the senses on the porch of this town house where, reading the press, I have just learned that the Hindu writer threatened with death by an Iranian spiritual leader has been stabbed Salman Rushdie. Spirituality, in addition to the recognition of the human … Read more