h/t my blog colleague paul ilc at Bloody Scott: In an interview at The Independent, Salman Rushdie discloses certain hithertofore secretive initiation rites of the Islamists– Within this Talibanist morality, there is room for great slabs of delusion and hypocrisy. In Shalimar the Clown, Rushdie shows sparingly how the jihadi fighters of Afghanistan have sex with adolescent boys, and the next day chop to pieces men they have dubbed “homosexual”.