Survival tip No.1: Don’t alienate your bodyguards
By Dave
July 29th, 2008 | Leave a comment
It seems that the Ayatollah Kohmeini wasn’t the only party writer Salmon Rushdie annoyed.
In his autobiography, “On Her Majesty’s Service,” former Special Branch detective Ron Evans wrote that the author of “The Satanic Verses” so infuriated his British protectors that they once locked him in a cupboard while they went out for a pint or two at a nearby pub. No wonder that comedian Dennis Miller once joked that Rushie was in a “rush to die.”
Rushdie, whose book was seen by some to blaspheme Islam, led the Iranian Ayatollah to issue a fatwah for Rushdie’s death in the late ’80s and early ’90s. He had a knack for annoying the people who were supposed to protect him.
Writes the Telegraph of London: “Evans paints an unflattering picture of Rushdie as tight-fisted, rude and arrogant, and claims the team of protection officers nicknamed him Scruffy because of his unkempt appearance.”
Nobody said protecting the First Amendment (which doesn’t apply in England anyway) was easy.
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