An all-too familiar affair
Women had been fighting fundamentalism on the streets of London for years before The Satanic Verses
The 20th anniversary of the fatwa against Rushdie has been publicly debated by almost the same chorus of voices, now a little older and with some welcome recantations, that was heard then.
Dissenting women’s voices are little in evidence although it is women who are the first to feel the chill of religious fundamentalism when their precarious freedoms begin to (...)