1.0 link 149443 <![CDATA[How to Understand Kashmir and Survive the Jihadis: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/how-to-understand-kashmir_b_149443.html This interview was conducted before the Mumbai atrocities, but it can help readers to understand what is happening in Kashmir -- and how to respond.

And so it begins again: the low rumble of Islamist death-threats against a novelist, simply because he dares to revel in free speech and free thought in a free society. "We're all living under a fatwa now," Salman Rushdie sighs, listing his persecutors' long slew of victims, from Algerian novelists to Bali clubbers to Circle Line...

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