This has been going on since GAF. You can say all types of wild shit about Christianity, it's ties to white supremacy and racism etc etc without fearing a ban - and justifiably so. Yet any criticism of Islam will get you banned. This is what happens when whiteness dominates your perspective on everything. It's ok to criticize Christianity because the American Christians are white. We can laugh and shit on the anti-women, anti-thought, anti-progress nature of them because they're white but have to walk on egg shells when discussing the anti-women, anti-thought, anti-progress Muslims who behead people who draw cartoons?
BTW from his wikipedia...
The novel provoked great controversy in the Muslim community for what some Muslims believed were blasphemous references. They accused him of misusing freedom of speech.[11] Pakistan banned the book in November 1988. On 12 February 1989, a 10,000-strong protest against Rushdie and the book took place in Islamabad, Pakistan. Six protesters were killed in an attack on the American Cultural Center, and an American Express office was ransacked. As the controversy spread, the importing of the book was banned in India[12] and it was burned in demonstrations in the United Kingdom.
Meanwhile, the Commission for Racial Equality and a liberal think tank, the Policy Studies Institute, held seminars on the Rushdie affair. They did not invite the author Fay Weldon, who spoke out against burning books, but did invite Shabbir Akhtar, a Cambridge philosophy graduate who called for "a negotiated compromise" which "would protect Muslim sensibilities against gratuitous provocation". The journalist and author Andy McSmith wrote at the time "We are witnessing, I fear, the birth of a new and dangerously illiberal 'liberal' orthodoxy designed to accommodate Dr Akhtar and his fundamentalist friends."
Time is a flat circle...
