The attack on Salman Rushdie and free speech

Author Salman Rushdie remains in critical condition and may lose an eye after being attacked onstage at the Chautauqua Institution. The 75-year-old was about to give a lecture on artistic freedom when he was stabbed in front of an audience largely made up of fellow writers. Many view this as a direct attack on free speech, as Rushdie spent decades with a bounty on his head — a fatwa — for his book “The Satanic Verses.”