Why on earth are people exploiting Rushdie's attack to attack "left wingers" for engaging in censorship?
The fatwa was enacted by Islamic fundamentalists, who are are as far from left wing as it's possible to be.
It's the Tories trying to ban protest and free speech, it's the Tories sending police round to harass people for wrongthink tweets.
It seems like there's a political agenda right now to keep pushing this idea that evil liberals are censorious, but in reality it's mainly the far right who engage in censorship. Look at the recent book thread, lots of uproar about "liberals" wanting trigger warnings and how terrible and censorious it is, not a word about the fact almost all book bannings have been from conservatives/republicans in order to ban books about racism or sex.
Reportedly (this of course may turn out to be baseless) the attack may be linked to the recent revelation that Donald Trump stole highest level American security and nuclear secrets and sold them to the Saudis, necessitating the US security having to change their entire nuclear security protocols overnight. There's speculation Islamic forces who benefited from Trump's espionage were behind the attack to send a message about their control over US soil.
I pray that Rushdie makes a good recovery.