“Everybody’s so angry right now that nobody can listen or talk to anybody else,” Salman Rushdie said earlier this week in an interview with Jon Stewart. “And what’s more, we also believe that being offended is a sufficient reason for attacking something.… And if you go down that road, then we can’t talk to each other anymore.” All of this sounds like an understatement coming from Rushdie, who had gone on “The Daily Show” to promote his new memoir, Knife, detailing his near-fatal stabbing in Chautauqua, New York, an attack—which cost him his right eye and severely damaged his left hand—allegedly motivated by Shia extremism.
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