Editing Salman Rushdie (section)

===Al-Qaeda hit list (2010)===
In 2010,<ref>{{cite web|first=Scott|last= Stewart|date=22 July 2010|title=Fanning the Flames of Jihad|url=http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100721_fanning_flames_jihad|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130706135755/http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100721_fanning_flames_jihad|archive-date=6 July 2013|work=Security Weekly|publisher=Stratfor|quote=Inspire also features a "hit list" that includes the names of people like Westergaard who were involved in the cartoon controversy as well as other targets such as Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who produced the controversial film Fitna in 2008}}</ref> [[Anwar al-Awlaki]] published an Al-Qaeda hit list in [[Inspire (magazine)|''Inspire'' magazine]], including Rushdie along with other figures claimed to have insulted Islam, including [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]], cartoonist [[Lars Vilks]], and three ''Jyllands-Posten'' staff members: [[Kurt Westergaard]], [[Carsten Juste]], and [[Flemming Rose]].<ref name="thewire2013">{{cite web|first=Dashiell|last=Bennet|date=1 March 2013|title=Look Who's on Al Qaeda's Most-Wanted List|url=http://www.thewire.com/global/2013/03/al-qaeda-most-wanted-list/62673/|work=The Wire|access-date=15 January 2015|archive-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117025952/http://www.thewire.com/global/2013/03/al-qaeda-most-wanted-list/62673/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Conal |last=Urquhart|title=Paris Police Say 12 Dead After Shooting at Charlie Hebdo|magazine=Time|url=https://time.com/3657246/paris-charlie-hebdo-shooting/|date=7 January 2015|access-date=15 January 2015|archive-date=22 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122052445/http://time.com/3657246/paris-charlie-hebdo-shooting/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Victoria|last= Ward|title=Murdered Charlie Hebdo cartoonist was on al Qaeda wanted list|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11330505/Murdered-Charlie-Hebdo-cartoonist-was-on-al-Qaeda-wanted-list.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11330505/Murdered-Charlie-Hebdo-cartoonist-was-on-al-Qaeda-wanted-list.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Telegraph|date=7 January 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The list was later expanded to include [[Stéphane "Charb" Charbonnier]], who was [[Charlie Hebdo shooting|murdered in a terror attack on ''Charlie Hebdo'']] in Paris, along with 11 other people. After the attack, Al-Qaeda called for more killings.<ref>{{cite web|author=Lucy Cormack|date=8 January 2015|title=Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier crossed off chilling al-Qaeda hitlist|url=http://www.theage.com.au/world/charlie-hebdo-editor-stephane-charbonnier-crossed-off-chilling-alqaeda-hitlist-20150108-12k97z.html|work=The Age|access-date=15 January 2015|archive-date=11 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111014923/http://www.theage.com.au/world/charlie-hebdo-editor-stephane-charbonnier-crossed-off-chilling-alqaeda-hitlist-20150108-12k97z.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Rushdie expressed his support for ''Charlie Hebdo'', saying "I stand with ''Charlie Hebdo'', as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity&nbsp;... religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today."<ref>''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. 7 January 2015. [https://time.com/3657541/charlie-hebdo-paris-terror-attack-salman-rushdie/ salman rushdie response] </ref> In response to the attack, Rushdie commented on what he perceived as [[victim-blaming]] in the media, stating: "You can dislike ''Charlie Hebdo''.... But the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak. The fact you dislike them certainly doesn't in any way excuse their murder."<ref>{{cite news|first=Wilson|last=Ring|date=15 January 2015|title=Salman Rushdie, threatened over book, defends free speech|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cb016b953bac485cb55b7ac214cecc3a/salman-rushdie-threatened-over-book-defends-free-speech|agency=Associated Press|access-date=15 January 2015|archive-date=24 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150124022443/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cb016b953bac485cb55b7ac214cecc3a/salman-rushdie-threatened-over-book-defends-free-speech|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Jack|last=Thurston|date=15 January 2015|title=After Paris Attacks, Salman Rushdie Defends Absolute Right of Free Speech While in Vermont|url=http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Salman-Rushdie-Defends-Absolute-Right-of-Free-Speech-in-Vermont-288620891.html|work=NECN|publisher=NBC Universal|access-date=15 January 2015|archive-date=18 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118190652/http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Salman-Rushdie-Defends-Absolute-Right-of-Free-Speech-in-Vermont-288620891.html|url-status=live}}</ref>