I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.
Look, you're either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist: there's no middle way. Everyone who supports the state of Israel is a Zionist.
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
I don't accept the Zionist idea.
Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.
I am a Zionist.
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.