Is anyone ever safe?

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Feb 8, 2013 at 00:17

Dear Dr Pipes,

The question "Is Salman Rushdie now safe?" can also be asked in a different way. The right question to ask is if a person who questions Muhammad's prophethood and Quran's authenticity as the God's word any more (or less) safe on our planet than (say) a person who questions the Bible, Torah or the Vedas. The answer is clear. On our planet a person who questions the authenticity of other religious books are quite safe (e.g. Muslims routinely challenge Bible as corrupted and unauthentic) but questioning the authenticity of Quran can make any one of us very unsafe.

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