A million barrels of oil could come to market if a nuclear deal is reached with Iran - but it wouldn't be a 'light switch' fix for the world's energy crisis, RBC commodities chief says
Business InsiderMAR 28 2022
Though nothing justifies this brutal attack, Rushdie as an author shouldn't be celebrated. A key condition of freedom is that it can be exercised only so long as it doesn't take away from the freedom of others. The double standard of liberal, Western democracy is blatant: while the American judicial system fiercely defends Rushdie's right to freedom of speech, there is never a place for the complaint of hundreds of millions of Muslims who have had their religious principles disrespected and insulted by his
Salman Rushdie never planned to become a hero of free speech, yet he is now a martyr to it. Book-burning is a popular distraction technique for regimes under pressure and the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran scapegoated Rushdie's exceptional writing to deflect attention from domestic troubles. There are no perfect victims, but pluralistic democracy necessarily means hearing opinions you don't like.