Was Rushdie a Coward not to Attend the Jaipur Festival.

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There was a literary festival at Jaipur.268 writers attended it and Salman Rushdie author and writer of the Satanic verses was invited. In fact Rushdie was to be the  star of the Festival. There is no doubt that Salman Rushdie  an Indian Muslim is a writer of class and occupies a high place in the field of literature.

It was known that a fringe element in India consisting of die hard Muslims were opposed to his coming to India. In addition the Congress government with its own agenda of supporting the Minority community played a dirty card. At their behest The Jaipur Police  created an imaginary  bogey of a threat to Rushdie’s life and also spread the canard that hired killers from mumbai underworld were coming to assassinate him. All this was hogwash.

But Rushdie should have known better. He panicked like a chicken despite many eminent persons telling  him not to worry and there was no threat. Yet Rushdie decided to skip the meet. Taslima the well known Bengali writer who has faced the wrath of the Islamists bravely, has tweeted in her blog that Rushdie was a coward not to come. She writes that cancelling his visit to India was another cowardly act after he had apologised to the Mullahs to get out of the Fatwa issued against him.

The fact is that Rushdie panicked unnecessarily and he could have easily made it to the Jaipur festival and in the bargain struck a blow for freedom