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Speech Impediments: Self-censorship in the West
Anxiety over causing religious offence limits freedom of speech in the West TWO decades ago, on 14th February 1989, Salman Rushdie received one of history’s most notorious Valentine greetings. Ayatollah Khomeini, then Iran’s Supreme Leader, issued a fatwa (a religious edict) calling for the death of the Indian-born British author in response
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Two Decades On, Rushdie Death Sentence Fatwa Still Valid
(CNSNews.com) – Twenty years after Iran ordered the death of British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers for blaspheming Islam, Tehran has confirmed that the verdict still stands. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s fatwa (religious edict), issued on February 14, 1989, sent Rushdie into hiding
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Rushdie Twenty Years On
by Mark Steyn Wednesday, 04 February 2009 Two decades ago Muslims took to the streets of British cities to call for the death of an author over a book he’d written. A few days later – Valentine’s Day 1989 – Ayatollah Khomeini made it official, and issued a death sentence on a
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Scared to Death to Offend a Muslim
It’s now been twenty years since the Ayatollah Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie. Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated a report from
