Zain Khalid Zain Khalid is a novelist and the fiction editor of The Drift.

After the Fatwa | Losing Faith in Salman Rushdie

Zain Khalid

Following the vicious attack on Salman Rushdie last August in Chautauqua, New York, following the news that the writer had been stabbed at least ten times and lost the use of a hand and sight in one eye, following the requisite denunciations of his assailant, there began a hagiography. In The Atlantic, Bernard-Henri Lévy lauded “The Immortal Salman Rushdie.” The New Yorker’s David Remnick argued that Rushdie should win the...