Death Threats Against Rushdie Thwart Festival Appearance

Salman Rushdie (Photo: Mariusz Kubik/Wikipedia)

Salman Rushdie (Photo: Mariusz Kubik/Wikipedia)

It has been more than 20 years since Salman Rushdie published “The Satanic Verses.”

Many Muslims called the novel blasphemous.

Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death.

That sent Rushdie into hiding for years.

Now, there is a new conflict over Rushdie in India, where he was burn.

The British author was scheduled to speak this weekend at India’s largest literary festival organized in the northwestern city of Jaipur.

But Rushdie canceled after police warned him of a threat against his life.

The organizers tried to have Rushdie appear by video-link, but the owner of the hotel where the festival was held canceled the video link Tuesday, just minutes before Rushdie was scheduled to appear.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Satish-Chandra/100000030432561 Satish Chandra

    Whether it is science, literature or any other field, no one is allowed to succeed in India unless he has the approval of CIA-RAW (see ‘What You Should Know About RAW’ in my blog ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.’ which can be found by a Yahoo/Google search with the title ) and is compatible with continued slavery for India to the white man. Tagore wrote ‘Jana Gana Mana’ as a hymn to the visiting British emperor and hence the Nobel Prize to him a few years later. Amartya Sen was given the Nobel Prize as a dummy substitute for me; see ‘How India’s Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More’ in my blog. What I have done would easily merit half a dozen Nobel Prizes; see ThisIsWhatTheJewsHaveBeenDoingDOTblogspotDOTcom . J. N. Parimoo, who was the Times of India correspondent in Washington in the early 1980s asked me if even a public television station had not done a story on the persecution of the world’s greatest scientist and greatest living Indian below; he would not do a story on it unless it first came out in the U.S. media. A few years later I received a certified letter, return receipt requested, from CBS News which wanted to do a ‘Sixty Minutes’ segment on it which was the most widely watched public affairs program in the U.S. at that time (the letter asked my permission for them to “read” a short piece, titled “The Soviet Coup”, that described the matter in a few words that I had faxed to CBS News and other media). When I did not respond (I had sent it to be read, what else? They had evidently read it for them to send a certified letter, return receipt requested. The letter seemed like a ploy for them to deny they knew about the matter it described), ‘Sixty Minutes’ did a segment on bride burnings in India, instead.

    I also described the matter in my letter dated July 27, 1982 to Indira Gandhi as prime minister. In her reply dated July 29, 1982 she wrote “Dear Mr. Chandra, I have received your letter dated July 27, 1982 and am passing it on to my Principal Secretary to deal with it. Sincerely, Indira Gandhi”. But I never heard from the Principal Secretary, P. C. Alexander. As I said “This bugger should be hung up by the heels and asked why”. Alexander was made governor of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu and was about to be made president of India as reward for his treachery but was replaced with A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (see my blog).

    Only the nuclear destruction of New Delhi, Washington and New York (see my blog) will break the slavery.

    There are literary prizes given in India but can you imagine any of them accorded the hoopla and divine status the nigger-shits of the Indian media (add to that Sheila Dick-shit, the Chief Minister of Delhi, who just invited the “very very eminent” Rushdie to Delhi but not me) attach to the Booker Prize just because it is given by the White Master to native dog-shits —  another example, besides Rushdie who is in the news now, is the stinking lump of shit named Arundhati Roy who won the prize by titillating her masters with soft porn and literary gems like ‘he “fucked” her all over the living room floor and on every piece of furniture’ or something like that — who are promoted and patronised by Jews — Rushdie-shit lives under the patronage of Jews in New York — about one of whom — Arundhati Roy — I would say Cut Off Her Ugly Tits & Throw Her On A Dung-Heap? See what I wrote about Arundhati Roy-shit in my press release dated August 27, 2008, included in my blog, ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.’.

    The following letter of mine, which appeared in the Manchester Guardian Weekly, put an end to the Rushdie debate in the U. K. two decades ago:-

    ——–START OF LETTER——–
    According to widely accepted psychological theory (both psychoanalytic and behavioral) one of the chief characteristics of literary behavior is that it allows the reader or writer to engage in otherwise punished behavior. One of the devices employed by the writer for this purpose is literary symbolism which refers to behavior that has some of the rewarding features of normally punished behavior while lacking enough the similarity to the original punished stimulus to be allowed evocation. From a psychological and technical point of view, then, the punishment evoked by the Rushdie book is not surprising and can be called a simple failure of symbolism.

     Satish Chandra
    ———-END OF LETTER———

    Note that CIA-RAW routinely remove even comments I post on news stories in the media, besides forbidding any mention of me in the media, jailing for several years the editor and publisher of News India-Times, New York, who carried front page news stories about me, brutally beating to death and dumping his body in a ditch outside Delhi a Muslim newspaper cartoonist who published a cartoon showing the Italian woman being thrown out of an airplane after I suggested in a letter to the press that she be thrown out of an airplane, etc., etc. See my blog.

    Satish Chandra