Salman Rushdie West Quotations

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

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.