The fatwa befell Rushdie because of this very impertinence toward all authority, spiritual or temporal. Source: City Journal Gobert, who’d just had a max-effort sequence go the wrong way at both ends and didn’t seem in a particular hurry to drag his 7-foot-1 frame upright, responded to Williams’s impertinence by sticking out a huge foot and kicking Williams’s legs out from under him. Source: Defector