Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie (born 1947), Indian-born British-American novelist. The Satanic Verses earned him a death sentence from Iran in 1989 and, in 2022, a stabbing that cost him an eye. The living test case for whether we mean what we say about Free Speech.

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