Ep. 32: Iran's War on Cultural Freedom

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Nebulous Media

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Eli examines the history of Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie in light of his near assassination last week in New York state. The Fatwa and Iran's role in a murderous campaign against the editors, translators and author of the Satanic Verses reveals the truth about a regime that has not reformed or moderated. His guest is Nazenin Ansari, the managing editor of the London based Kayhan newspaper. Time Stamps: 0:18 Monologue 11:44 Interview with Nazenin Ansari www.Kayhan.London www.KayhanLife.com Questions? Comments? Ideas? Contact us at [email protected]

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0:00.0	This is Eli Lake, and welcome back to the re-education.
0:04.2	Our topic today is the Iranian threat to cultural freedom, in the aftermath of the horrific stabbing of novelist Salman Rushdie.
0:12.0	My guest is Nazanin Ansari, the managing editor of the London-based Kehan newspaper.
0:31.2	This new video appears to show suspected attacker Hadith Mataar being removed from the stage.
0:32.0	Just moments after witnesses say he stabbed author Salman Rushdie in the neck and torso.
0:38.1	It happened in western New York, just as the 75-year-old took the stage to give a lecture on artistic freedom.
0:45.0	The amphitheater goes nuts. People are screaming.
0:48.3	We couldn't tell if he had a knife at the time, but it was a surreal thing.
0:53.2	The 24-year-old is now in jail facing charges of attempted murder and assault.
0:58.2	He's pleaded not guilty.
1:00.6	The motive for the stabbing is still unclear.
1:03.2	We just heard a news report on the shocking attempted murder of novelist Salman Rushdie.
1:08.2	I want to focus on one element of that report.
1:11.3	The last bit.
1:12.4	It says that the motive for 24-year-old Hadi Matar is still not known, and while in a legal
1:18.8	sense this may be true, I think we can all surmise what motivated this young sociopath
1:24.7	was a fatwa, or a religious edict from 1989, issued by Ayatollah Rahula Khomeini, the
1:31.7	supreme leader of Iran at the time.
1:33.4	However offensive that book may be inciting murder and offering rewards for its
1:42.1	perpetration are deeply offensive to the norms of civilized behavior.
1:47.8	Khomeini issued the fatwa on February 14, 1989.
1:52.3	He urged all Muslims to murder Rushdie and anyone else involved in the publication or editing
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