Language can \u2018open eyes\u2019, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices<\/p>\n
\u2018Whatever the attack was about, it wasn\u2019t about The Satanic Verses<\/em>.\u201d So insists Salman Rushdie<\/a> in Knife<\/em><\/a>, his \u201cMeditations After an Attempted Murder\u201d, written after he almost lost his life in a ferocious assault in Chautauqua, a small town in upstate New York, where he had gone to give a talk in August 2022.<\/p>\n As Rushdie rose to speak, a young man rushed towards him wielding a knife with which he inflicted terrible wounds \u201cto my neck, to my chest, to my eye, everywhere\u201d, excruciatingly severing the optic nerve of Rushdie\u2019s right eye. The talk he never gave was to have been about \u201cthe importance of keeping writers safe from harm\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Language can \u2018open eyes\u2019, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices \u2018Whatever the attack was about, it wasn\u2019t about The Satanic Verses.\u201d So insists Salman Rushdie in Knife, his \u201cMeditations After an Attempted Murder\u201d, written after he almost lost his life in a ferocious assault in Chautauqua, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}