You should let people know that Salman Rushdie is not the author of the letter, but that the letter only contains a quote from Rushdie.
If you go to the source of the quote (
Salman Rushdie: The Pen and the Sword) you'll see that it was drawn out of context and wasn't about fundamentalism as the letter's author implies. It was a lament that fewer foreign literary works are available in America as compared to the rest of the world. The only object of criticism is a veiled reference to George Bush ("...under the thumbs of leaders who seem to think of themselves as God's anointed and of power as their divine right...").
--Percy
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