Rushdie attack serves as warning about censorship, violence in US

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : As Levitt observed, Iran has an impressive record of assassinating, abducting, and surveilling its political opponents at home and abroad.
51% : But, while antipathy to free speech and the endorsement of violence against political opponents may be a hallmark of secular autocracies and authoritarian theocracies like Iran, their growing resurgence among both conservatives and liberals in the U.S. is particularly ominous.
41% : National correspondent Bryan Llenas reports on Iran denying involvement in the stabbing of acclaimed author Salman Rushdie on 'America's Newsroom.'
40% : Last week, wrote Matthew Levitt, a former counter-terrorism official now an analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Justice Department charged an Iranian national based in Tehran with plotting to kill former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton.
37% : AFTER RUSHDIE ATTACK, IRANIAN ACTIVIST CALLS ON US TO HALT NUCLEAR DEAL TALKS WITH IRAN: 'NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK'
35% : It should come as no surprise that Iran, which applauded the attack on Rushdie but denied responsibility for it, condemns what it considers blasphemous speech and endorses violence against those accused of perpetrating it.

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