‘Different rules’ apply with Islam

Society has just agreed people can’t publish novels criticising Mohammed as “different rules apply” with Islam, says author Douglas Murray. It follows the stabbing attack on novelist Sir Salman Rushdie in New York. Mr Rushdie has had a fatwa calling for his death for his novel The Satanic Verses since 1989. “This is of course intolerable,” he told Sky News Australia. “It’s the demand of one fanatical sect of Islam to dictate not only what all Muslims will be able to say, but what everybody else is too. “And that should be deemed totally intolerable with any sense of pride.”