Controversial British-American author Salman Rushdie has sparked outrage by suggesting that a free Palestinian state would be inevitably governed by Hamas and “Taliban-like” in its essence. Speaking to German broadcaster RBB on Sunday, Rushdie said that a Hamas-governed Palestinian state would also be a “client of Iran”. The Indian-born author claimed that it was “strange” that students worldwide would “support a fascist terrorist group”, following the largestudent protest movement against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza which has swept the US, Europe, the Middle East and other parts of the…