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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 […]

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. […]

In Defence of Salman Rushdie

When offending sensibilities is more important than death threats