“Salman Rushdie Was Hunted By Islamists. Now Lectures India On Hindu Nationalism”, TheCommuneMag, 9 Sep 2026.

“Salman Rushdie has spent decades living under the shadow of Islamist extremism.

His book The Satanic Verses was banned in India by the Rajiv Gandhi government. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini later issued a fatwa calling for his death. Rushdie lived under threat for years. In 2022, he was attacked and repeatedly stabbed by Hadi Matar at an event in New York. The attack left Rushdie blind in one eye.

One would expect that experience to produce a particularly clear understanding of the ideology that made him a target.

Instead, Rushdie now appears far more comfortable lecturing India about Hindu nationalism and attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In a recent interview with PBS, Rushdie was asked whether Modi should be described as a “war criminal” over the 2002 Gujarat riots as labelled by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Rushdie stopped short of calling Modi a war criminal, acknowledging that “it wasn’t a war.” But he then questioned the legal process that cleared Modi………..”

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