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Salman Rushdie pulls out as commencement speaker at California college over protest threats (www.independent.co.uk)

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Celebrated British-Indian author Salman Rushdie will no longer deliver the commencement address at Claremont McKenna College.

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[–] Plum@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations also called on the college to address students’ concerns, noting in a statement that the author “previously made troubling statements about Muslims and Palestine.”

Troubling statements here?

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