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@philipncohen How well-known is Rushdie in American intellectual circles like this? In Britain he's long been a cause célèbre, but my exposure to American intellectual circles is through an atypically South Asian corner (=3 Quarks Daily), and I don't know whether Midnight's Children and such are considered literary canon in the US.

@Alon honestly I do not know, but I would guess there are more intellectuals who have a vague sense that he is kind of anti-Islam than there are people who have read his books.