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Not the merit of his books, not his failure to be ‘grateful,’ not blasphemy, not apostasy; nothing.

‘First Dennett, then Dawkins and now Hitchens’ Harries tuts. And there are how many theist books?

Serge Maheshe, a journalist for Radio Okapi, was ‘one of the best journalists on our team.’

Furious reaction to government plans to revise textbook accounts of army activities during WW II.

Inayat Bunglawala comments: ‘We’re not taking them seriously.’ Back atcha, dude.

Repuation in the media, ingratitude, entitled to decline the honour, surprised he didn’t, eh, what?

While the rest of us were still worrying about the Cold War, Rushdie was warning us about the war yet to come.

All scare-quotes and sneers.

Left and right, people have reacted by blaming Rushdie for being the victim of wannabe-murderers.

Life of Brian ‘offended’ people too; so what.

Spoke hours after John Reid said Britain would not apologise to whiners from across ‘the Muslim world.’

Emaciated children lying on the floor, some tied to cribs; food and clothing in storeroom.

‘Bad on Whitehall for not spotting the trouble it might do to British-Muslim relations at this delicate time.’

‘The last thing we should do is accept the terms in which religious obscurantists seek to frame this issue.’

The notion that free speech was an ethnocentric imposition on other cultures has developed mightily.

Sinister mixture of sneering and crawling, both aimed at the wrong targets.

‘If we were not treated with respect then we were capable of forcing others to respect us’ – thanks to fatwa.

Hari Kunzru: ‘The real insult is to the intelligence and decency of “the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims”.’

BBC says Rushdie’s book ‘sparked’ protests.

‘The Satanic Verses provoked the ire of many Muslims and led to the issuing of a fatwa.’