# Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie est un essayiste et romancier britannique d'origine indienne, né à Bombay le 19 juin 1947.

## Citations
### Haroun et la mer des histoires, 1990

* Haroun et la mer des histoires, Salman Rushdie (trad. Jean-Michel Desbuis), éd. Christian Bourgois, coll. « 10/18 : domaine étranger », 1991 (ISBN 2-267-01034-8), p. 34

### Discours à l'université Columbia, 1991

* (en) For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair." ... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
* 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', 12 décembre 1991, Université Columbia, dans https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-address.html, paru The New York Times, Salman Rushdie.
* (en) Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was. ... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.
* 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', 12 décembre 1991, Université Columbia, dans https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-address.html, paru The New York Times, Salman Rushdie.
* (en) Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
* 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', 12 décembre 1991, Université Columbia, dans https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-address.html, paru The New York Times, Salman Rushdie.
* (en) The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you. And one of the things that I thought a lot about at the time of the fatwa and ever since is that quite a few of the people I really care about died during this period, all about the same age as I am, and they were not under a death sentence. They just died, of lung cancer, AIDS, whatever. It occurred to me that you don't need a fatwa, it can happen anytime.
* 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', 12 décembre 1991, Université Columbia, dans https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-address.html, paru The New York Times, Salman Rushdie.

### Entretien dans la revue The Hindu, 2012

* (en) There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn't exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it's true about cartoons, it's true about all these products.
* « "There is no right not so be offended" », Salman Rushdie, propos recueillis par Mukund Padmanabhan, The Hindu, 6 octobre 2012, mise à jour le 18 octobre 2016 (lire en ligne)
* (en) The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world’s oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam. This very minor extremist cult, Wahhabism, was suddenly propagated across the Muslim world through madrassas and has created generations now who are steeped in this harsher, more paranoid, more confrontational version of Islam.
* « "There is no right not so be offended" », Salman Rushdie, propos recueillis par Mukund Padmanabhan, The Hindu, 6 octobre 2012, mise à jour le 18 octobre 2016 (lire en ligne)

### Interviews

* « Salman Rushdie sur l'islamisme : "Il faut arrêter cet aveuglement stupide" », Salman Rushdie, propos recueillis par Sara Daniel, Le Nouvel Observateur, 7 juin 2017 (lire en ligne)
* Réponse à une question d'un journaliste lors d'un entretien.
* « Avec Salman Rushdie, Trump ou l'effondrement du vieux monde », Guy Duplat, La Libre Belgique, 18 septembre 2018, p. 40

## Citations au sujet de Salman Rushdie
### Ali Khemenei

* Au sujet de la fatwa lancée contre l'écrivain Salman Rushdie après la publication de son roman Les Versets sataniques.
* (en) « No Iranian Forgiveness For Salman Rushdie », Seyyed Ali Khamenei (trad. Wikipédia), The New York Times, 27 décembre 1990 (lire en ligne)
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