[lit-ideas] Re: Hitch on his leftist dismay
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:10:44 -0700 (PDT)
--- Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> how would [Hitchens] know what an honourable man
> thinks ?
>
>
> Hitchens: The realization that we were in a cultural
> and
> political war with Islamic theocracy came to me with
> force
> and certainty not on 11 September 2001 but on 14
> February
> 1989, when the Ayatollah Khomeini offered money in
> his own
> name to suborn the murder of my friend Salman
> Rushdie.
*So was the West supposed to start World War III
because of Rushdie ? What is "political war," other
than something that enables people like Hitchens to
scream for blood without appearing as warmongers ?
O.K.
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