The Economist (US), February 25th, 1989
If Rushdie is killed
THE foreign ministries delicately extract their ambassadors, but leave the other diplomats at their desks to go on doing business with Iran. The cab drivers and men in bars bellow for a missile in that ayatollah's minaret. The first European reactions to Britain's predicament over the Rushdie affair have not been a model of the controlled toughness that will be needed if this Islamic uproar is not the passing quirk many people wish it were.
It would be nice to believe that this is all the work of an aged bigot who happens to be able to mesmerise the brooding Shia Musli...
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