Tagged: Salman Rushdie

This has to stop - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Oct 10, 2012 •

• Anton Chekhov,
• belief,
• diversity,
• fatwa,
• human rights,
• Iran,
• Islam,
• Joseph Conrad,
• politics,
• religion,
• Salman Rushdie,
• Satanic Verses,
• Sciblogs

I am currently reading Salman Rushdie’s new book – Joseph Anton: A Memoir It describes Rushdie’s life since the fatwa against him was declared on February 14 1989 – Valentines Day. This was the day he was “sentenced to death” by … Continue reading → … Read More

Reacting to a death with respect and hatred - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Dec 22, 2011 •

• 2003 invasion of Iraq,
• agnostic,
• agnosticism,
• atheism,
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
• belief,
• book review,
• Christianity,
• Christopher Hitchens,
• Dawkins,
• diversity,
• god,
• hypocrisy,
• Missionary Position,
• Mother Teresa,
• philosophy,
• politics,
• religion,
• Salman Rushdie,
• Sciblogs

I wasn’t going to write a eulogy to Christopher Hitchens, and I still won’t. After all there are some excellent eulogies on the internet by far better writers than me. But I am intrigued at the world-wide reaction to his … Continue reading → … Read More