Let Us Assure You, No One Is Fatwa-ing JK Rowling Over Her Transphobic Nonsense

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Let Us Assure You, No One Is Fatwa-ing JK Rowling Over Her Transphobic Nonsense

On Friday, Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie was stabbed and maimed by a fanatic seeking to make good on a 34-year-old fatwa against the author for the supposedly blasphemous book. Truly, it was freaking horrific. It was also very, very different from people criticizing bigots on Twitter.As the news broke that Rushdie would be losing an eye and was on a ventilator, another story broke. J.K. Rowling, whose fame as the author of the Harry Potte…