Salman Rushdie: Bush policies HELP Islamic terrorism

[Bluebear]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Bush administration helps the cause of Islamic terrorism by failing to engage in serious dialogue with the international community, author Salman Rushdie said on Tuesday.

Rushdie -- who lived for years under threat of death after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's 1989 pronouncement that his novel "The Satanic Verses" was blasphemous -- said he believes U.S. isolationism has turned not just its enemies against America, but its allies too.

"What I think plays into Islamic terrorism is ... the curious ability of the current administration to unite people against it," Rushdie told Reuters in an interview.

Rushdie said he found it striking how the "colossal sympathy" the world felt for the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has been squandered so quickly.

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[burrowowl]

1. Noooooo!

Really!
Fascism/Corporatism, as presently headed by Bu$h II needs 'Terrorism' to keep the populace in tow.

[fujiyama]

2. The neo cons

don't care about Islamic terrorism. When the fatwa was issued against him by the Ayotolla, some of those that now go on about Islamofascism actually justified it.

Rushdie actually understands the value of a free and LIBERAL society.