The story of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie, sentencing the novelist to death for writing “The Satanic Verses,” has always been much bigger than Rushdie himself. It ...
The appalling knife attack on Salman Rushdie while he was speaking in Chautauqua, New York is a throwback to the violence that followed the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Rushdie and his book, ...
After Salman Rushdie was attacked as he began a lecture Friday in western New York, it was a potent reminder that an Islamic leader had issued a high-profile edict calling for the writer’s death in ...
Many Muslims were angered by his novel “The Satanic Verses,” which fictionalized parts of the life of the Prophet Muhammad. By Steven Erlanger Salman Rushdie has been living under a death sentence ...
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