Salman Rushdie has probably been the longest ongoing target of Islamic terrorism. While Rushdie had his life massively disrupted after Muslim outrage over his novel, The Satanic Verses, and was forced to live in hiding, he was unhurt until the recent stabbing attack. But despite losing an eye, Muslim groups are not backing down from their campaign against him.

CAIR, a Muslim Brotherhood group whose leadership has endorsed Islamic terrorism, including the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, launched attacks on Rushdie, and the Muslim Students Association at Claremont McKenna, another Muslim Brotherhood group, came after Rushdie who had been scheduled to appear as a graduation speaker at Claremont.

And they appear to have succeeded in getting Rushdie to drop out.

Rushdie’s decision to drop out is understandable after experiencing a brutal Muslim terrorist attack that took his eye and nearly took his life. The harassment campaign waged by Muslim Brotherhood groups was not met with condemnations by the media, but tacit approval.

The MSA claimed that inviting Rushdie “disregards the values of inclusion and respect that CMC claims to uphold” and shows that “Muslim dignity is expendable when it conflicts with the comfort of western liberal narratives.” It complained that in Rushdie’s books “Islam (is) Mocked as a Demonic Religion,” “Perverse Depictions of the Prophets Wives [sic],” and “Sexualization of the Prophet”.

These are entirely theological complaints and amounts to enforcing blasphemy law at Claremont. Everywhere CAIR and the MSA are, Islamic blasphemy law is being enforced.