Salman Rushdie on Bill Maher discussing Je Suis Charlie and the 'free speech BUT' brigade

Very interesting. He should know!

After that massive demo on Sunday and show of solidarity with Charlie Hebdo and freedom of speech, serhaps media outlets which now choose not to publish the cartoons, citing sensitivity/security issues as one TV station did this morning, should actually be seen to be siding with the terrorists.

i really don't like Bill Maher or Salmon Rushdie.

I was very disappointed to find out Rushdie spent all that time while under threat of death with the Fatwah at Geoffrey Roberton's house in Islington... when I spent a year in Oz sitting next to Geoffrey in school and he once said to a teacher I was a "troublemaker".

Mind you I get on well with Kathy Lette but we were once in a lift together at the Sydney Opera House years later and Geoffrey said : "I remember you used to always copy my work". Which is a lie.