Salman Rushdie
“You can’t shut up people who don’t feel the way you do”
Salman Rushdie has published a new book, “Knife,” almost two years after the life-threatening attack on him. In the interview he talks about his fight for freedom of expression.
Salman Rushdie deals with the knife attack on himself in “Knife”.
He doesn’t feel restricted in what he says or writes. “Luckily I can say: Fuck off. I say and write what I think. And if someone doesn’t like that, then that’s just the way it is.”
Rushdie advocates that true freedom of expression only exists when all opinions are heard. “It’s easy to defend the freedom of speech of people you agree with or are indifferent to,” the writer said. “But you can’t shut up people who don’t feel the way you do. If you do that, you don’t really believe in freedom of expression.”