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Rushdie not an author, is a 'satan': Trinamool MP
Friday February 01, 2013 07:03:24 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Trinamool
Congress MP Sultan Ahmed Friday called Salman Rushdie a "satan"
and said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had done the
right thing if she indeed blocked the writer's visit to Kolkata.
"I have no knowledge of what actually happened. But if the chief
minister has indeed ordered the police to block Rushdie's entry to
the city, then she has done the right thing. We don't have
anything to learn from Rushdie," Ahmed told IANS.
Ahmed, a member of the lower house of parliament, was the union
minister of state for tourism in the United Progressive Alliance
government till the Trinamool quit the ruling dispensation.
He said Rushdie's only intention was to foment "inter-religious
conflict" and added that freedom of expression did not give anyone
the right to denigrate Prophet Mohammed.
"Rushdie is not an author; he is a satan," Ahmed said.
His comments came on a day the Booker Prize-winning author Rushdie
said he was forced to cancel his trip to Kolkata two days back as
he was told on the eve of his departure that the police would
refuse him entry to the city and put him on the next plane back at
the request of the chief minister.
The controversial author of "The Satanic Verses" was slated to
visit Kolkata Jan 30 to promote Deepa Mehta's film "Midnight's
Children" based on his homonymous novel.
Rushdie has long been embroiled in controversy over "The Satanic
Verses", which is perceived as anti-Islamic.
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