Claim: Author Salman Rushdie made these damaging comments on Muslims – "𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒔, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒓 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒂, 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒂, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉, 𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝒃𝒐𝒎𝒃 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒋𝒊𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑰𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒎."
Fact-check: Salman Rushdie never made these comments about Muslims; They were falsely attributed to him - FACTLY
Verdict: salman rushdie, through a tweet, clarified that he never made any such comments about muslims. moreover, there is no mention of any such comments in his books, interviews, and speeches regarding this. hence, the claim made in the post is false
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Harshavardhan Konda
Date published: 2022-08-18T06:56:45