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Salman Rushdie: Palestinian State Would Be "Taliban-like," Ruled by Hamas
(Times of Israel) Salman Rushdie, the British-American author who narrowly survived an attempt on his life in 2022 by an Islamist radical, told the German tabloid Bild on Sunday that it was "strange" that progressive youth would support a "fascist terrorist group" like Hamas. Rushdie says, "If there were a Palestinian state now, it would be run by Hamas and we would have a Taliban-like state - a satellite state of Iran. Is this what the progressive movements of the Western Left want to create?" He thought protesters should at least hold the terror group responsible for the war too. "It all started with them [Hamas]," he said. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa - a religious edict - calling for Rushdie's death over the publication of his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, which he declared blasphemous.