This article was published on August 21, 2020
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In the name of Almighty God.
I want to inform all Muslims that the author of the book titled
The Satanic Verses
, as well as those who published it, have been sentenced to death.
I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them quickly, wherever they find them…”
On February 14, 1989, while the Western world was discovering the meaning of the word fatwa, Salman Rushdie thought he would never see his son grow up.
On Radio Tehran, Ayatollah Khomeini has just launched an appeal to all Muslims to kill the writer and his publishers.
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“Writing a book is like making an upside-down Faustian pact. To gain immortality, or at least conquer posterity, one loses, or at least compromises, one's true daily existence.
Throughout the writing of The
Satanic Verses,
Rushdie had kept this pinned note above his desk.
He had no idea how prescient these sentences would turn out to be.
He ... not…
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