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In response to the assault on writer Salman Rushdie, Friday, Muslim scholar Dr. Qanta Ahmed emphasised the significance of defending “language.” On “Fox & Buddies Weekend,” Sunday, Dr. Ahmed criticized identification politics and cancel tradition for difficult free speech and threatening to silence People, urging People to guard language or ‘be rendered speechless.’
SALMAN RUSHDIE OFF VENTILATOR AND TALKING AFTER STABBING ATTACK, AGENT SAYS
DR. QANTA AHMED: I am very apprehensive that now that we see this occasion proper right here in our state just some hours away, a symbolic assassination nearly occurred. We’re very grateful to the docs who’re saving the writer’s life, however we’re more and more stripped of language to discuss it. We all know that when a few of our most vocal members of Congress, who like me, are Muslim, make overtly anti-Semitic remarks to criticize them is now labeled as Islamophobia in the US. And that is a barrier that the Democratic Social gathering themselves haven’t confronted. We additionally know we’re residing in a tradition the place identification guidelines are above every thing. And so individuals are afraid even to label, as an illustration, the execution of 4 Muslims in New Mexico by one other Muslim, which might be sectarian killing as one thing associated to those ideologies. With out language, we shall be rendered as speechless as doubtlessly an iconic writer nearly grew to become lately. And we’re so glad to listen to that Salman Rushdie can really converse, which is a reduction that he is off the ventilator and capable of converse. So if we hand over language, then solely the language that Islamists say okay is allowed.
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