You Know Who's Funny? Salman Rushdie

In 1988, esteemed author Salman Rushdie released his 4th novel The Satanic Verses. Almost immediately, clerics in Iran found the novel blasphemous toward the Prophet Muhammad and declared a fatwa for death in relation to Rushdie.Young Fred was aghast and bought the Satanic Verses in support of Rushdie and tenets of Free Speech. But when I tried to read it…. In the year 2022, I described the experience thusly: “I actually tried to read the damn thing and it was impenetrable.” Let me expound…