By Kenan Malik, in United Kingdom, for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/opinion/07malik.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2&ref=global" target="_blank"> The New York Times </a>
Kenan Malik Born in India, broughtup in Manchester and now lives in London, Malik is a writer, lecturer, broadcaster (and occassional troublemaker!). He is Senior Visting Fellow at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey besides being a presenter of Analysis, BBC Radio 4's flagship current affairs programme and a panelist on the MoralMaze. He is the author of “From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and ItsLegacy.”