Charlie Rose

PhinH  11/17/2011 02:55 AM Report

Fantastic interview. Mr. Rushdie brought his usual brilliance and insight.

indojin  08/22/2008 01:07 PM Report

Good Interview...Sir Salman seems to be getting better with each interview.

yasir mateen  08/20/2008 10:12 PM Report

thanx charlie for the interview

ashwani  08/17/2008 06:07 PM Report

i am astonished why the interveiwer didnt ask Rushdee, had a hindu artist painted the mother and daughter of Mohamad,and Mohamad himself as nude in different poses with his little wife Aisha or with other gay-boys,how would you or muslims have behaved? Why did he not ask Rushadee why muslims started dancing on thier heads on a simple cartoon of Mohamad?

Fact is that many of the Muslims are the most dangerous,deceptive,hypocrite,communal,illogical and haters of non-islamic religions & peoples.They are the most intolerent ppl. Ugly face of Islam has to be exposed to them so as to liberate them from its dirty clutches for ever.

Nusrat Ali  08/12/2008 11:07 PM Report

Why muslims cry on Danish cartoon of Mohammad if the paintings of MFH of hindu gods do not hurt them ? How many countries Islam divided ? How many human beings have been brutly butchered simply because they didnt like Islam,Mohammad and Koran?

Akbar was crual,cunning islamist.He himself cut the throat of King Hemu who taught him the art of fighting.He had a herum of about 5000 women.

And U Mr Rushadie! U are a biggest caward.On a single Fatva U started trembling and recited a fresh Kalma to cool dn the islamic rabids after writing a novel Satnic Verses.Now simply U are apeasing the Jihadis so that they may not kill U.

I will leave islam within few months.Thanks to a movement of faithfreedom.org.Hats off to the greatest thinker& braver of this century, Janab Ali Sina.

Rita Shah  08/09/2008 10:17 PM Report

Lookslike Rusdie is terrified of muslims and is scared of being killled by them. In order to prove that he is indeed a good muslim he is busy thrashing hindus - which his ancestors used to be before they were raped murdered and sold as slaves by jihadis

suresh maheshwari  08/09/2008 10:17 PM Report

Salman Rushdie is the unique hypocrite. All he wants is publicity and that is why he continues to have affairs with one Hindu girl after another. Presntly he is having affairs with the actress Riya Sen.

His stupidity is at its highest when he supports MF>Hussain,a oadside painter who has been raised to the status of an artist by manipulators,commercial artists,businessmen,Public Relations men turned investors and a whole lobby of frauds and trickesters.Apparently, one pervert is scratching anothers back in order to find some relief in return.

Nothing happened in Denmark, not even a leaf stirredthere, when Danish cartoonist made a cartoon of Mohammad but in India Hindus became the victims and four people were nhumanly murdered for no reason but this great writer kept mum.

Instaed of shedding tears on this die-hard islamic painter and unnecessarily supporting him he should have admonished this pervert to paint the 7th century Casanovai.e. Mohammad to paint him in true colours with his six years old Ayesha turned wife at 9 along with his daughters in law whom he married.

Rushdie's behaviour and writings depict that he is not an honest writer but a cheap wordsmith.

Dr.Vijayalakshmi  08/09/2008 10:16 PM Report

Salman Rushdie says that those who opposed his 'Satanic Verses', did so without reading it.So also I would say, that those who support the pervert M.F.Husain, including Salman Rushdie, are doing it without proper and honest assessment of the perverted painter's works.Thus Rushdie has exhibited his hypocrisy.Husain is actually a fugitive from the law of the land.

It is obvious that Rushdie is hoping to make peace with his irrational,intolerant and violent clan, who are still nursing a grudge against him.Rushdie's euology of the Moghul ruler Akbar as a 'secular' ruler is also ill-conceived and concocted.With more than 500 wives and a full harem, Akbar could have been anything but secular.All Islamists deliberately hide the misdeeds of the Moghul rulers, and try to fool the world by portraying Islam as a religion of peace.No Moghul ruler was ever 'secular' in the true sense of the word.

The pervert M.F.Husain is an Islamist who deliberately caricatured revered Hindu Deities in un-natural vulgar postures and the stupid/arrogant, 'secular' liberalists and cunning,intolerant islamists support the pervert and allow him to earn millions of dollars by auctioning the vulgar paintings in the world market, through Christies et al, who would not dare to allow the display of the Danish cartoons in their galleries.Such is the hypocrisy and poor sense of judgement, justice and fairplay of these worthies!

Jose Thomas  07/29/2008 04:53 PM Report

Hey charlie...you let ur friend salman go easy...y disn't you bring in the cartoon crisis...does he believe in the danish cartoonist freedom to depict Mohamadd as he did...cmon charlie don't let friendship come in the way of professionalism

arish k sahani  07/08/2008 05:16 PM Report

when a muslim converts to hindus he is killed . when a hind converts we let him thinthig he will come back after looking around. But hindus never released what Islam real teaching are. So we are loosing hindus who convert. As hindus love life and don't want to die They convert and remainmuslim . but problem is after convering they lose free mind and thinking power. Same with rashidie. He is now real muslim we should never expect from him any free thinking. When he says akbar was good akbar produced the generation where 80 million hindus were killed and M.F/. Hussian after eating and living in india fro 90 yrs has no respect for his for fathers culture hinduisum we cann't trust muslims any more in india .looks like can we .

natyalia vanaz  07/04/2008 06:42 PM Report

This was a good interview. But I wonder why Mr. Rose has not interviewed Junot Diaz, who won the Pulitzer this year except in the context of a food article some years back. Does he only interview his friends (Rushdie) and beautiful women (Zadie Smith and Jhumpa Lahiri)when he has neglected so many other writers of color who are not "in the mix".

nila  07/04/2008 02:26 PM Report

Such defence of his islam religion which has issued Fatwa to have him killed is fatal attitude. How can you praise MF Hussein for painting nude pic of reveered goddess of other religion? Queen Elizabeth II should see this interview and rescind the knighthood she bestowed oh Rushdie !!!

v.c.krishnan  07/04/2008 11:17 AM Report

Dear Sir,

Please excuse him. How many diapers can he keep changing every day, at every telephone call, at every look and every sneeze at the next table! after Satanic Verses and the Fatwa. Somewhere he must come to peace with his detractors.

So forgive him as he does not know what he is doing!

Regards,

vck

Dahyabhai Patel  07/04/2008 10:09 AM Report

I am surprised that Rushdie has lost his jurist sense and is praising MF Hussain for painting vulgar paintings of Hindu holy subjects. Also Hindus have not threaten anybody but just have peacefully and legally protested. There are no reports on threat against Hussain's life. He ran away from a court summons. In this interview, he takes a cheap shot at the expressions of grievances of Hindus against M F Hussain and, instead of being sympathetic to Hindu victims, he sprays salt on their wounds. Many years ago, Christian Coalition in USA had started a large scale campaign against all Museums of Arts for displaying paintings of nude human figures. Since this was the special case about an abstract subject matters and in natural poses, I was opposed to the protests because it as abstract interpretation of the individual artist. Hussain is removing this abstractness by putting specific names of Hindu holy figures like Sita, Hanuman, Laxmi, Durga etc. on his painted figures in vulgar and unnatural sexual poses. Ten years ago he made a painting with four people that included Mahatma Gandhi and Hitler. Only Hitler is painted in nude and Hussain had that time indicated on national TV interview that he painted Hitler in nude because he hated Hitler. Hussain painted Hindu figures as expression of hate. Go to http://www.hindujagruti.org/activities/campaigns/national/mfhussain-campaign/intro.php

....Dahyabhai Patel

Vinodgupt  07/04/2008 09:50 AM Report

Just two short comments:

1. Much is made of MF Hussain being sued by Indian authorities and "Hindu fundamentalists" reaction to Hussain's nude paitnings of Hindu goddesses and Bharat Mata. Professional interviewer and much regarded Charlie Rose failed in his interview to ask Salman Rushdie what would have happened to a Hindu artist if had painted the wives of the Prophet in nude?

2. Salman Rushdie presents Akbar as being very tolerant and his marrying Rajput princess is given as one example. Again I wonder why Charlie Rose didn't ask Rushdie if this tolerant Akbar married any of his daughter or sister to a Hindu Prince and let him retain his religion?

John Sudhaker  07/04/2008 09:19 AM Report

I never knew that Rushadie was so poor in Indian history about Akbar and islam.He has disapointed me a lot. How come that he has suddenly started supporting a communalist, a jihadi, hater of non-islamic cultur, a culprit of indian society and Govt who has run away from india to escape 20 court cases on him ? Why does he not face the cases if he is true. Why did he take shelter in an islamic country like DUBAI ? Why did he not depict a true event of pedophiling 9 yrs Ayasha by highly eulogised Mohammad in nude in his paintings. His paintings then would have been more near to reality and praised better.Or he could have painted the marraige of Mohammad with his own daughter-in-law Zainab.This is also a true significant event and would have fetched him a more money and popularity.

About Rushady? I have lost faith in him.Perhaps a jihadi or islamist is getting a shape in him.

Sanathan  07/04/2008 02:20 AM Report

M.F. Hussain painted Hitler and Hindu goddesses Naked.

MF Hussain draws paintings depicting Hindu Gods and Goddesses in sexual positions which relations are not borne out by ancient texts at all.

Hussain hates Hitler and has said in an interview 8 years ago that he has depicted Hitler naked to humiliate him and as he deserves it !

Mr Rushdie How come Hitler's nudity cause humiliation when in Hussain's own statement nudity in art depicts purity and is in fact an honour!

This shows Hussain's perversion and your hypocrisy.

Ankush  07/04/2008 12:26 AM Report

It is apalling that a supposed well read person like Salman Rushdie makes comments without realizing who this MFH is

Ajay  07/03/2008 07:53 PM Report

After this I have a low opinion of Rushidie's intellect. Here is a Jiahdist artist(MF Hussain) who paints Hindu goddesses naked and diddling with animal. But he depicts Allahs wife and his won sister fully clothed. Talk about malicious intent in his so called art.

So taking him on these insults Hindus are called fundamentalists but Muslims burn towns, kill, rape and plunder on some cartoons, books, and ice cream packaging is okay.

What double standards but then Hindus like Rushdies his ex girlfriend are too polite to give him a peace of mind. But I remember she dumped his sorry ass.

Satya Dosapati  07/03/2008 03:45 PM Report

It is appalling and deeply hurting to hear a journalist who boldly spoke against the Islamic verses, to say that Hindu fundamentalists are against M.F. Hussain. Did he ever take time to see what it is about? It is not a matter for Hindu fundamentalists, it is a matter of all one billion Hindus, nay to every self respecting person. M.F. Hussain depicted so vulgarly the most revered Hindu Gods and Goddesses.

Would any religion tolerate if there revered figures are shown in nude copulating with animals. Even Mahatma Gandhi was not spared and was placed in nude next to nude Hitler. This is what MF Hussain has to return for the man who died for minorities in India. At the same time, the same MF Hussain pictures Muslim figures completely clothed with reverence.

Is speaking against this fundamentalism? Would Muslims tolerate this? Would Christians tolerate this? Would Jews tolerate this?

Perhaps, Salman Rushdie is buying peace with Muslim fundamentalists who issued fatwa against him by siding with the causes that appeals to them.

Anand Garikepati  07/03/2008 02:07 PM Report

People like Mr. Rushdie and many news papers use the words “Secularism’ and ‘Fundamentalism’. Do they know what they are talking about? They will be doing great service to the world peace if they can rank the three faiths Christianity, Islam and Hinduism with respect to ‘Secularism’. Hypocrisy does not help world peace.

suseela bhoopalam  07/03/2008 12:57 PM Report

During Mr. Rushdie's interview he mentioned that M.F. Hussain is kicked out from India by Hindu fundamentalist. First I want to clarify that no one kicked him out he himself ran out of country because of several law suits against him. Rushdie mentioned that he just paiting Hindu Goddess. He did not tell what really his paintings are. following is description of few of his paintings: "We worship Sita because she is the lady who underwent unthinkable sufferings to save her modesty. Now M.F.Hussain strip this goddess of modesty , Hanuman is the great celibate who had high motherly regards for Sita. He was a son to mother Sita. You make a naked Sita sit on the tail of a naked Hanuman , Saraswati is the goddess of knowledge and is the incarnation of decency. He disrobe

her, River Ganga and River Yamuna are respected as mothers. You paint them naked, he paint mothers Durga in compromising posture with her lion, He disrobed even Bharatmata(Mother of Bharat). On the other hand Hussain painted priphet mohammad and his wives so well covered and with so much respect.

Another point Rushdie mentioned is greatness of Akbar rule in India. What a lier he is and talks about religious tolerance. Rushdie is dangerous. World does not know the Hindu holocaust during muslim rule. About 50 million Hindus are killed during Islam rule in 800 years. Afghanistan was a Hindu land, today it is a terrorist country. Pakistan was a Hindu land another terrorist land, during partition there were about 24% hindus in pakistan today only 1-2 %, all temples are destroyed. Bagladesh was a Hindu land every day there are attrocities and torture to Hindus, millions of Hindus are missing in that land. Kashmir was Hindu land today 500,000 Kashmiri Pandits were kicked out from their land and live in a refugee camp in their own country. Rashdie talks about religous tolerance by Islam.

I suggest one thing to understand a muslim visit "faithfreedom.org". I do not know who created it but that person has done an excellent job. Hope he won't be get killed.

Suseela Bhoopalam