Salman Rushdie was a longtime opponent of Israel. Despite being targeted by Iran for The Satanic Verses, a book that the Islamic revolutionary regime deemed blasphemous and being sold out by fellow leftists for “provoking” Muslims, the Pakistani ex-Muslims opposed the Jewish State and supported the terrorist cause.
Now in an interview with Bild, a German publication, Rushdie, who suffered a Muslim terrorist attack in America (funny how quickly the media moved on from that) that left him without one eye, had some thoughts on the Hamas campus riots.
“The fact is that any normal person can only be shocked by what is happening in Gaza right now, by the level of innocent deaths,” Rushdie says very clearly. And adds what bothers him: “But I think the demonstrators could also mention Hamas. Because it all started with them. And Hamas is a terrorist organization. And it’s strange that a young progressive student politician supports a fascist terrorist group, because in a way they do.”
“They demand free Palestine – liberate Palestine. “I have been in favor of a separate Palestinian state most of my life,” explains Rushdie. “But if there were a Palestinian state now, it would be run by Hamas and we would have a Taliban-like state. A satellite state of Iran. Is this what the progressive movements of the Western Left want to create?”
Obviously, the answer is that they do.
It’s striking that Rushdie has to be the one to make this point. Again, he’s a longtime opponent of Israel. And yet it falls to him to state that any current ‘Palestinian’ state would be Hamas.
The Hamas flags at rallies and protests and the defenses of Hamas atrocities, both overt (easily found on social media) and by omission (the media’s refusal to discuss Hamas) make it all too obvious that the ideological ground is being prepared for just that outcome.
Rushdie claims that it’s strange, but he’s had more than enough experience with Western liberals playing the same game with him and Iran. At some point it’s not “strange”, it’s an admission of complicity.