“
The belly is still fertile whence the filthy beast came out
”.
Brecht's sentence, rehashed
ad nauseam
, on a possible resurgence of Nazism after the Second World War, has never been more topical with regard to Islamist, Shiite or Sunni terrorism.
Not only is it more virulent than ever, but it is relayed by fresh troops with each generation.
When Salman Rushdie was slapped in February 1989 with a fatwa by Ayatholla Khomeini calling on any Muslim to kill him for publishing
The Satanic Verses
and desecrated the image of Muhammad, the writer was immediately defended by a majority of intellectuals including Milan Kundera, Naghib Mafouz, Edward Saïd, Pierre Bourdieu, Mahmoud Darwich, Jacques Derrida.
Already good apostles were offended by this publication.
From President Chirac, who we knew better inspired, who accused Salman Rushdie of making money with blasphemy, to the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor and the writers Roald Dahl and John Le Carré…
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