In 2009, Rushdie signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl
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It's funny because like the Taliban, one side of this conflict is being armed by the US, and it isn't the Palestinians.
Now I can see why he has a fatwa on his head.
Sounds like someone needs another fatwa
We've had first fatwa...
... but what about second fatwa?
Oh shit, some random novelist that looks like a cartoon villain has opinions guys
Well, I guess we should just let them die then.
Go play beer pong with Dan Crenshaw, you hack.
In a tragic game of soggy biscuit, Crenshaw loses his other eye to Rushdie ropes.
Maybe its because I'm deep in the Yakuza hole at the moment, but I hate that I think he looks cool.
I don't get it.
We have a Majima emote? Lol
It'd be more surprising if we didn't
Rushdie has been married five times and has two children; his first four marriages ended in divorce.
Dude's name is pronounced like a fish, he doesn't get how sunglasses work apparently and he wrote a book so shitty the ayatolla wanted him dead. What an asshole.
Just in case anybody doesn't know - small chance I know - I'll leave this here...
Salman Rushdie: Losing an eye upsets me every day
Sir Salman Rushdie has spoken in chilling detail to the BBC about what he remembers of the attack two years ago, in which he was stabbed on stage. The Booker Prize-winning author said his eye was left hanging down his face "like a soft-boiled egg", and that losing the eye "upsets him every day".
James Bond villain ahh glasses
stab him again
Palestinians
are these terrorists?