rushdie at the india today conclave 2012

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:
taking about islam, imran khan's hypocrisy, and pakistani and indian mullahs. he rarely ever says anything critical about fanatics who wear saffron, and more troubling for me, about the religious fanatics in the society in which he finds himself NOW -- the religious right in the united states. isn't this too his home now? so why does he give the hypocritical pastors, the bible thumpers, the fellows who want to take away a woman's right to choose, and the gay bashers a free pass? i'm tiring a bit of his shtick now.

eta: alright so he did mention the hooligans who got AKR's essay on three hundred ramayanas removed from the university of delhi syllabus, so i stand corrected on the saffron bit.

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:
taking about islam, imran khan's hypocrisy, and pakistani and indian mullahs. he rarely ever says anything critical about fanatics who wear saffron, and more troubling for me, about the religious fanatics in the society in which he finds himself NOW -- the religious right in the united states. isn't this too his home now? so why does he give the hypocritical pastors, the bible thumpers, the fellows who want to take away a woman's right to choose, and the gay bashers a free pass? i'm tiring a bit of his shtick now.

eta: alright so he did mention the hooligans who got AKR's essay on three hundred ramayanas removed from the university of delhi syllabus, so i stand corrected on the saffron bit.

Has Rushdie ever been critical of the Gujarat pogrom?

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:
taking about islam, imran khan's hypocrisy, and pakistani and indian mullahs. he rarely ever says anything critical about fanatics who wear saffron, and more troubling for me, about the religious fanatics in the society in which he finds himself NOW -- the religious right in the united states. isn't this too his home now? so why does he give the hypocritical pastors, the bible thumpers, the fellows who want to take away a woman's right to choose, and the gay bashers a free pass? i'm tiring a bit of his shtick now.

eta: alright so he did mention the hooligans who got AKR's essay on three hundred ramayanas removed from the university of delhi syllabus, so i stand corrected on the saffron bit.

Has Rushdie ever been critical of the Gujarat pogrom?

you know, i don't know.

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:
taking about islam, imran khan's hypocrisy, and pakistani and indian mullahs. he rarely ever says anything critical about fanatics who wear saffron, and more troubling for me, about the religious fanatics in the society in which he finds himself NOW -- the religious right in the united states. isn't this too his home now? so why does he give the hypocritical pastors, the bible thumpers, the fellows who want to take away a woman's right to choose, and the gay bashers a free pass? i'm tiring a bit of his shtick now.

eta: alright so he did mention the hooligans who got AKR's essay on three hundred ramayanas removed from the university of delhi syllabus, so i stand corrected on the saffron bit.

Has Rushdie ever been critical of the Gujarat pogrom?

you know, i don't know.

Afaik the answer is No. Rushdie is possibly another V.S. Naipaul in this matter.

garam_kuta wrote:

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:
taking about islam, imran khan's hypocrisy, and pakistani and indian mullahs. he rarely ever says anything critical about fanatics who wear saffron, and more troubling for me, about the religious fanatics in the society in which he finds himself NOW -- the religious right in the united states. isn't this too his home now? so why does he give the hypocritical pastors, the bible thumpers, the fellows who want to take away a woman's right to choose, and the gay bashers a free pass? i'm tiring a bit of his shtick now.

eta: alright so he did mention the hooligans who got AKR's essay on three hundred ramayanas removed from the university of delhi syllabus, so i stand corrected on the saffron bit.

Has Rushdie ever been critical of the Gujarat pogrom?

you know, i don't know.

Afaik the answer is No. Rushdie is possibly another V.S. Naipaul in this matter.

you mean he can talk only from his own experience?