[Conservative til I die]

So what's your point? Rushdie has it coming from the islamic nuts?

[A Simple Soldier]

No he does not deserve to be killed. But in this rare case I am sympathetic to their disdain for him. And I am not so sure there is not an element of convenient publicity to this.

I lived at the Taj Mahal Hotel (it is actually cheaper than most upper mid-level US hotel chains) for some time prior to getting my apartment. I know how the cops are in that part of Bombay (brutal). If the protestors did in fact unfurl their banners it was for a few seconds at best and it was an unannounced and likely small assembly. NO WAY would they have gotten a protest permit. India ain't America when it comes to free speech and assembly. I'll try to find something else in the Indian newspapers.