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In Defence of Salman Rushdie

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 25, 2016
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  • Salman Rushdie
TO SIGN ON TO THIS PETITION, CLICK HERE. We, the undersigned, are outraged to learn that forty state-run media outlets in Iran have raised $600,000 (£420,000) to add as bounty to Ayatollah Khomeini’s death fatwa on the writer Salman Rushdie, because of his novel The Satanic Verses. We condemn the Iranian regime, its fatwa and […]
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When offending sensibilities is more important than death threats

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 23, 2012
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  • Salman Rushdie
A complaint has been lodged against four authors who read out excerpts from Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses in protest to his being prevented from attending Jaipur Literature Festival due to death threats. One of the authors, Hari Kunzru, says: ‘We wanted to demystify the book. It is, after all, just a book. Not a bomb. […]
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