Via The Steel Deal, we find that Salman Rushdie, along with a group of European and Asian "intellectuals," people with whom I often clash, have finally spoken out against the threat of Islamic totalitarianism.
The recent violence surrounding the publication in the West of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad illustrate the danger of Islamic "totalitarianism", Salman Rushdie and a group of other writers said in a statement obtained on Tuesday.
Rushdie, French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy and exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen were among those putting their names to the statement, to be published on Wednesday in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, one of several French newspapers which reprinted the Muhammad cartoons.
"After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global threat: Islamism," they wrote.
"We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all."
I'm almost speechless. A group of people I normally associate with senseless leftism have embraced the truth. They should be applauded.
Leftists in this country, who normally fight vehembtly for women's rights, have ignored the fact that women in Muslim countries are treated like chattel. I'm thrilled that these people have seen the obvious and are brave enough to speak it publicly.
Spread their message, and support them. No doubt some fanatical Islamists will attempt to kill one or more of them.
