Supporters of author Salman Rushdie attend a reading and rally to show solidarity for free expression at the New York Public Library in New York City, US, on Aug 19, 2022.NEW YORK – Under the watch of counterterrorism officers and police in tactical gear, hundreds of people gathered in front of the New York Public Library on Friday to show support for Salman Rushdie, the author stabbed multiple times at a literary event a week ago.
Some held signs depicting Rushdie and quoting him saying, "If we are not confident of our freedom, then we are not free." "We're all in danger. And some of us are more overtly in danger than the rest," Iranian-American author Roya Hakakian said in an interview. When Bush died in 2018, Jarrar described her as an "amazing racist" for a comment about the majority-Black communities displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Queer Chicana writer Myriam Gurba faced threats after she criticised author Jeanine Cummins in 2020 of cultural appropriation in writing the novel American Dirt, which focused on a Mexican woman who escaped a drug cartel to build a new life in the US as an undocumented immigrant.Gurba said many people supported her, but she also received threats of violence on her phone and the internet.
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