Salman Rushdie said that the world learned the “wrong lessons” about freedom of expression from his Iran fatwa ordeal, in an interview published Wednesday by the French news magazine L’Express. In the interview, the British author says the controversy that surrounded the PEN prize to Charlie Hebdo this year convinced him that if the attacks against “The Satanic Verses” had occurred today, “these people would not come to my defense and would use the same arguments against me by accusing me of insulting an ethnic and cultural minority.” We take a look at his comments on the Lip News with Elliot Hill and Mark Sovel.
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