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A Deal With The Devil? Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses', 30 Years On by Artsjournal1

It was on Valentine’s Day of 1999 that the Ayatollah Khomeini issued his notorious fatwa decreeing that author Salman Rushdie should be executed on grounds of blasphemy for the novel, as should anyone who helped in its release. Riots, death threats, bomb threats and a few murders ensued; Rushdie himself had to spend almost a […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 2:36pm on February 5, 2019

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