There was a very interesting piece in the Atlantic. Did you know that Jimmy Carter was sympathetic to the "fatwa?"

It's well worth a read:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/salman-rushdie-fatwa-attack/671139/

Among the things he said:

" “While Rushdie’s First Amendment freedoms are important,” he wrote, “we have tended to promote him and his book with little acknowledgment that it is a direct insult to those millions of Moslems whose sacred beliefs have been violated."