One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
