Salman rushes to rip revision

Leading the criticism on Monday of revisions to Roald Dahl’s works was award-winning author Salman Rushdie, who was viciously stabbed last summer at a literary event in Western New York.

“Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship,” Rushdie wrote on Twitter. Rushdie was in hiding for a decade after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his death.

But Rushdie said publisher Puffin and the Dahl estate “should be ashamed” after they hired sensitivity readers to rewrite sections of the Dahl’s books in an attempt to update them.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak “agreed . . . that we shouldn’t gobblefunk around with words,” a spokesperson told The Times of London.

Dahl’s beloved children’s books, such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “James and the Giant Peach,” will soon be cleansed.

“Words matter,” begins a notice at the bottom of the copyright page for the latest editions of Dahl’s books. “The wonderful words of Roald Dahl can transport you to different worlds and introduce you to the most marvelous characters. This book was written many years ago, and so we regularly review the language to ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today.”

Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of PEN America, said on Twitter that she and others at her organization were “alarmed” by the changes.

“The problem with taking license to re-edit classic works is that there is no limiting principle. You start out wanting to replace a word here and a word there, and end up inserting entirely new ideas (as has been done to Dahl’s work),” she wrote.