On October 1, 2010, Daniel Pipes published this rather lengthy monologue on his blog:  http://www.danielpipes.org/8913/two-decades-rushdie-rules. Mr. Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum, Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and a columnist at National Review. He delivered an earlier version of this text on receiving an award from the Danish Free Speech Society.

This monologue is so important, I believe, that it needs the widest possible dissemination. Mr. Pipes graciously granted permission for reproduction of his words on TDH.

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