Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

India is my kid sister.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests, which has worked time and time again with PEN.