‘The Satanic Verses’ author Salman Rushdie attacked at a literary event
Dr Keith Suter, Managing Director of the Global Directions Think Tank, about the attack on Salman Rushdie in front of an audience of 2,500 at a western New York literary event.
In 1989, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of Indian-born novelist Rushdie for authoring the book ‘The Satanic Verses’, which was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims.
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