Salman Rushdie is a famous British writer of Indian descent. He was brought up in a Muslim family, but over time became an atheist. In 1988, Rushdi published the book "Satan's verses", in which the prophet Muhammad appears. The author did not denigrate the founder of Islam, however, Muslims did not like the liberty of the writer and began to hunt him.
The culmination of Islamic intolerance was the fatwa of Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. He called to kill Salman Rushdie. From that moment, the writer was under the supervision of British intelligence agencies. However, on August 12, 2022, a certain Khadi Matar attacked him, which is why Rushdi is now on the verge and connected to the artificial respiration apparatus.
In this article, I published 8 Rushdie quotes about religion.
Salman Rushdie.
1. Religion is poison
"In Islamic countries, as in other countries of our gloomy world, religion is poison in blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Nevertheless, we continue to circumvent this issue, talking about religion in the fashionable language of "respect." What can be respected in all this or in any of the crimes that are committed almost daily around the world under the terrible name of religion? "
Salman Rushdi "Religion, as always, is poison in the blood of India" (2002)
2. Holy against progress
"The idea of the sacred is one of the most conservative concepts in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, changes - into crimes."
Salman Rushdi “Is there really nothing sacred ” (1990)
3. Abnormal punishment
"God, Satan, Paradise and Hell disappeared one day in the fifteenth year of my life, when I completely unexpectedly lost faith. ...And after that, in order to prove my newfound atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich and first tasted the forbidden flesh of a pig. Thunder did not follow to amaze me. ...From that day to this day I consider myself a completely secular person. "
Salman Rushdi "We Believe in God" (1985)
4. No one is required to respect religion
"Respect for religion" has become a code phrase meaning "fear of religion." Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire and, yes, our fearless disrespect. "
Salman Rushdie expressed support for Charlie Hebdo in 2015
5. About apostasy
"It seems strange and completely inappropriate that they call me some heretic after I lived my life as a secular, pluralistic, eclectic person ... I do not accept accusations of blasphemy, because, as someone said in "Satan's verses", "where there is no faith, there is no blasphemy." I do not accept accusations of apostasy, because I have never confirmed any beliefs in my adult life, and that a person has not confirmed, it cannot be said that he retreated. "
From an interview in Independent Magazine in 1990
6. About the uselessness of God
"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world in which I live."
Quote attributed to Rushdie
7. About freedom
"What is freedom of expression? Without freedom to insult, it ceases to exist. "
Quote attributed to Rushdie
8. About the function of God
"From the very beginning, people used God to justify the unjustified."
Quote attributed to Rushdie
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