A sad day indeed for freedom of conscience and speech, a religious retard, of the Islamic variety, stormed a stage in New York where Salman Rushdie was speaking and stabbed him multiple times. Rushdie is in hospital now on a ventilator with very serious injuries, hopefully he'll pull through. What can you say about things like this? It's very easy to become enraged and to wish for vengence but in many ways that's what the fascist organisations that encourage these kinds of things exactly want, they want a war of civilisations, they long for this world to end in a ocean of blood, as their pathetically inadequate "holy books" demand. Their idea of a happy life is one spent on your knees wishing for the next, a totally asinine and irrational way of thinking.
There isn't much we can do as individuals about random murderous attacks like this, the solution is, as always, education, our kids need to understand the value of the freedoms we enjoy and to treasure and defend them above all else. When I heard this news this morning I went onto Amazon and ordered a copy of the Satanic Verses, probably not a book I'd normally buy or read but I'm damn sure I will now!
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