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The letter by Yakubi I. Patel, “Freedom of Speech” (Jan. 31), asks, “Why are the Western capitals shutting their doors one by one to Zhirinovsky” and not to someone like Salman Rushdie?
That is because Rushdie’s book “Satanic Verses,” though offensive to the religion of Islam and labeled blasphemous, does not advocate violence, upheaval, death and destruction for those who do not fit in his scenario of the world, as does Zhirinovsky. In other words, freedom of speech does not protect the right to scream “fire” in a crowded theater.
