Contrast Carter’s insensitivity toward his Jewish readers with his extraordinary oversensitivity toward Muslim readers of Salman Rushdie’s controversial book The Satanic Verses. When Rushdie was sentenced to death in absentia by the Ayatollah Khomeini, and when Khomeini offered “Paradise” to anyone who would murder Rushdie, Carter did not leap to the defense of the threatened author. Instead, he condemned him for his “direct insult to the millions of Muslims whose sacred beliefs have been violated and are suffering in restrained silence…”
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