The Rushdie attack is not an isolated incident

The near fatal attack on Salman Rushdie was not an isolated incident. Extremists in their intolerance of what they see as blasphemy have done the following:

• Murder of the Japanese translator of the Satanic Verses
• Shooting of the Norwegian publisher
• Attempted burning of the Turkish translator (37 others killed in the attempt)
• Attempted bombing of Rushdie in 1989

The irony is that I can almost guarantee you that none of those people have ever read the book they wish to kill for. In fact even the Ayatollah Khomeini admitted he had never read it when he issued the fatwa on Rushdie.