Frases de Salman Rushdie
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie,Kt. é um ensaísta e autor de ficção britânico de origem muçulmana indiana. Cresceu em Mumbai e estudou na Inglaterra, onde se formou no King's College, Universidade de Cambridge. O seu estilo narrativo, mesclando o mito e a fantasia com a vida real, tem sido descrito como conectado com o realismo mágico. Rushdie casou-se com a famosa actriz e modelo indiana Padma Lakshmi, de quem anunciou divórcio em julho de 2007.

Rushdie foi condecorado em 15 de junho de 2007 como Cavaleiro Celibatário , fato que provocou diversos protestos por religiosos de todo o mundo. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Junho 1947
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“A despolitização do Islã é a urtiga que todas as sociedades muçulmanas terão de agarrar com as mãos para poder se tornar modernas.”

Salman Rushdie, escritor, para quem a grande questão levantada pela guerra no Afeganistão é o Islã
Declarações na imprensa

“Se as vozes moderadas do Islã não modernizarem sua cultura e sua fé, pode ser que os 'Rushdies' tenham de fazê-lo por elas.”

Salman Rushdie, escritor condenado à morte em 1989 pelos líderes do Irã por causa de seu livro Versos Satânicos, em artigo no The New York Times
Declarações na imprensa

“Para se nascer de novo, é preciso primeiro morrer.”

Os Versículos Satânicos

“O teu amo é muito protector, muito condescendênte. Mas Al-Lat não tem a menor vontade de ser filha dele. Ela é sua igual, como eu sou tua igual. Pergunta a Baal: ele conhece-a. Tal como me conhece a mim.”

"Então o Grande Senhor vai faltar à sua palavra", diz Mahound {nome profano de Maomé}.
"Quem sabe?", escarnece Hind. "Nem ele próprio sabe ainda. Terá de pesar os prós e os contras. É fraco, como eu te disse.
Mas tu sabes que eu estou a dizer a verdade. Entre Alá e as Três não pode haver paz. Eu não a quero. Quero a guerra. Até à morte; a ideia que eu sou é assim. E tu, que tipo de ideia és?»
Os Versículos Satânicos

Salman Rushdie: Frases em inglês

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”

Fonte: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

“everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale;”

Salman Rushdie livro Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Fonte: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.”

Salman Rushdie livro Joseph Anton: A Memoir

Fonte: Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“This may be the curse of human race. Not that we are different from one anther, but we are so alike.”

Salman Rushdie livro The Enchantress of Florence

Fonte: The Enchantress of Florence

“When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.”

Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Fonte: The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“Confusion to our enemies!”

Salman Rushdie livro The Moor's Last Sigh

The Moor's Last Sigh

“It is a funny view of the world that a book can cause riots.”

(When asked if he apprehended riots) Interview with Shrabani Basu (September 1988), quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 32

“Two things form the bedrock of any open society—freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.”

The Times of India, ‘Don’t allow religious hooligans to dictate terms’ http://archive.is/ecOpa (16 January 2008)

“It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.”

"Outside The Whale" in Granta (1984) http://web.archive.org/web/20110618004653/http://www.granta.com/Magazine/11/Outside-the-Whale/Page-2

“I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.”

Salman Rushdie — Talking with David Frost (1993)

“The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrage, accountable government, Jews, homosexuals, women's rights, pluralism, secularism, short skits, dancing, beardlessness, evolution theory, sex. There are tyrants, not Muslims. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that we should now define ourselves not only by what we are for but by what we are against. I would reverse that proposition, because in the present instance what we are against is a no brainer. Suicidist assassins ram wide-bodied aircraft into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and kill thousands of people: um, I'm against that. But what are we for? What will we risk our lives to defend? Can we unanimously concur that all the items in the preceding list — yes, even the short skirts and the dancing — are worth dying for? The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybaritic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must first know that he is wrong. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love. These will be our weapons. Not by making war but by the unafraid way we choose to live shall we defeat them. How to defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. Don't let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.”

Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002

“What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?”

Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason (23 June 2006) http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/portraits_rushdie.html - transcript http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/print/faithandreason101_print.html

“Our lives teach us who we are.”

I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own — and such descriptions have been raining down on me, from security advisers, governments, journalists, Archbishops, friends, enemies, mullahs — then you might as well be dead. Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable. Yet I must cling with all my might to … my own soul; must hold on to its mischievous, iconoclastic, out-of-step clown-instincts, no matter how great the storm. And if that plunges me into contradiction and paradox, so be it; I've lived in that messy ocean all my life. I've fished in it for my art. This turbulent sea was the sea outside my bedroom window in Bombay. It is the sea by which I was born, and which I carry within me wherever I go.
"Free speech is a non-starter," says one of my Islamic extremist opponents. No, sir, it is not. Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Address at Columbia University (1991)