The spoils of blasphemy
Muslim pop singer Deeyah, who’s also received fundie death threats, poses with Salman Rushdie. If these are the spoils of blasphemy, sign me up 
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Rushdie speaks about the fatwa with Bill O’Reilly during the Shalimar the Clown promo tour:
on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006, 11:47 am in Literature, Music, Salman Rushdie › 
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As a part of the promo tour, Rushdie came to Vassar today. At one point during his talk, he said that his parents stayed back in Bombay when the Partition happened because they thought of themselves as “Indians first and Muslims second.” Then, much more interestingly, he added, “Well, my father thought of himself as a Muslim seventy-second. He thought of himself as a whiskey-drinker much before he thought of himself as a Muslim. So, golf and whiskey won over religion.”