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Article: Fearless Self-Inflation
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 10, 1989
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Poor Salman Rushdie. His enemies are out to kill him and his
friends, those who profess to be, are out to ride him. For a while
Rushdie was a cause. Now he is just a platform on which writers can
fight their own little battles in Salman's holy name.
Item. Anthony Lewis condemns the ayatollah's death threat, then
notes Khomeini's rationale for refusing to lift the death sentence:
he will not let his country "fall into the hands of liberals." Lewis
cannot then resist implying a link between the ayatollah's
illiberality and, yes, George Bush. Bush's 1988 campaign, Lewis
reminds, "made an issue of requiring school children to pledge
allegiance to the flag" and was "generally an assault on ...