Credit: Jakarta Globe.
Paris. British author Salman Rushdie, who lived in hiding for nine years under a death sentence from Iran’s supreme leader, said in an interview published last Thursday that something had gone wrong at the heart of Islam.Rushdie told Le Monde newspaper that his years fleeing the 1989 fatwa from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had forced him to pay close attention to a radicalization of the Muslim world. “Something has gone wrong at the heart of Islam. It is quite recent. I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture,” he said in an interview published in French.
There is nothing wrong “At the heart of Islam”, it is the hearts of some misguided followers of Islam, which is the problem.
MAV
You are very right MAV. I would add furhter actual problem with those fanatic Islamic clerics who interpret Islam wrongly and provide fertilizer to Rushdi like writers. Rushdi is advised once to read Ahmadiyya interpretation of Islam.