Everyone is suddenly an advocate for the freedom of speech after the Rushdie attack, but actually what Nasser Kanaani says here is exactly what the Western media says whenever people in the West are attacked for speaking honestly about the jihad and Sharia: he had it coming, he needlessly provoked the poor dears.
“‘Rushdie insulted Islam’: Justifying attack, Iran faults writer for his own stabbing,” Times of Israel, August 15, 2022:
TEHRAN — An Iranian government official denied on Monday that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, while also blaming him for his own assault, in the country’s first public comments on the attack.
Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a briefing to journalists.
“We categorically deny” any link with the attack, Kanaani said. “No one has the right to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Speaking at his weekly press conference in Tehran, he added: “In this attack, we do not consider anyone other than Salman Rushdie and his supporters worthy of blame and even condemnation.
“By insulting the sacred matters of Islam and crossing the red lines of more than one and a half billion Muslims and all followers of the divine religions, Salman Rushdie has exposed himself to the anger and rage of the people.”
