Salman Rushdie: Unrest a product of the outrage machine

Fareed Zakaria interviewed Rushdie this morning:

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/20/rushdie-unrest-a-product-of-the-outrage-machine/

Quote :: “At the time of the attack on The Satanic Verses, what we saw was not so much a spontaneous outpouring of rage as a very carefully manufactured outpouring,” Rushdie told Zakaria.
“There was no doubt that it was highly controlled. ...“Looking back at it, you can see that that was one of the early moments at which this project of manufacturing outrage began,” he said. “And that’s, of course, become much more prevalent and much more widespread.”
“And I think certainly, if we look at what’s happening now, this is very much a product of the outrage machine,"

Ann