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    The Salman Rushdie Fatwa is Alive and Well

    The Salman Rushdie Fatwa is Alive and Well

    Celebrated novelist and onetime Padma Lakshmi-satisfier Salman Rushdie has canceled a planned appearance at a major literary festival in India after receiving a tip that his life may be in danger.

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    He released this statement on the threat, via CNN:

    "I have now been informed by intelligence sources in Maharashtra and Rajasthan that paid assassins from the Mumbai underworld may be on their way to Jaipur to 'eliminate' me.

    "While I have some doubts about the accuracy of this intelligence, it would be irresponsible of me to come to the festival in such circumstances; irresponsible to my family, to the festival audience, and to my fellow writers. I will therefore not travel to Jaipur as planned."

    The threat of assassination has hung over Rushdie since 1989, when Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death decree against him over what was deemed to be "blasphemous" passages against Islam in the novel The Satanic Verses. That same year, two floors of a London hotel were destroyed after a book bomb detonated prematurely. A shrine to the would-be assassin, Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh, stands in a Tehran cemetery.

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    The book remains banned in India, one of 12 countries worldwide to do so.

     

    17 comments

    • Natalie  •  4 mths ago
      The religion of tolerance & peace cannot even stand a writer speaking his peace/piece.
      I wonder, what are the censors & fatwa freaks so afraid of?
    • Joe  •  4 mths ago
      Islam is a fake religion. Mohammed was a pedophile and a goat #$%$ Mohammed and his weird relatives concocted this religion. ISLAM IS A SHAM RELIGION.
      • Oliver 4 mths ago
        i think all religions are a sham, but islam seems to have the craziest followers.
      • Anton 4 mths ago
        Church of Joe is the best ?
      • Vice 4 mths ago
        All religions are looked upon as fake to members of another. I'm sure your religion is just as full of lies and concoctions.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      @veraci "..free speech for criminal activity" It is so true!
    • kerry  •  Tampa, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      More proof that Islam is a religion of peace!! NOT!!
    • Vice  •  Dallas, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Every time radical Muslims threaten salman Rushdie they prove him right.
    • MJ  •  4 mths ago
      The truth is bothersome to many muslimes so to obfuscate it they kill the truthful.
      I have never seen a Buddhist get on an airplane and hijack it, killing others.
      I prefer how the Chinese deal with their muslime problems- With an armed response.
    • Zot  •  Tampa, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      Iranians are jealous because they can't write as well as Mr. Rushdie.
    • caesar  •  4 mths ago
      It should be an unwritted law."An unjust law should be broken."A Fatwa should be declared on the heads of those who declare a Fatwa,so that these fundamentalist hypocritical thugs may be eliminated before murdering anyone.
    • GrimReaper  •  Denver, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      Rushdie should be given a medal for exposing the evils of Islam. Islam does not belong in the civilized world. It should be banned from any nation that prizes freedom, equality, justice, or peace.
      • DeMo 4 mths ago
        Christianity can take a hike too.
      • GrimReaper 4 mths ago
        Demo there is only one way to be reconcilled with God, and that is through Jesus Christ. While there are many people and churches that proclaim to know, and follow the gospel, very few actually do. Christ taught us to love and serve both God and our neighbor. This teaching is the essential way we are to act as followers of Christ. The Bible also teaches that Christ died for our sins so that we who do believe in him should not perish at the final judgment, but shall obtain eternal life. Christ is our King, and our Lord. He is our saviour, and our redeemer. He is the way, the truth, and the light.
    • Rudy t. Miller  •  Denver, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      Rushdie is only guilty of writing a FICTION! Get over your own high and mighty ego!!
      • MJ 4 mths ago
        The satanic verses are not fiction
    • Oliver  •  4 mths ago
      islam definitely has the craziest followers.
      • A Yahoo! User 4 mths ago
        I am Muslim and I love my religion.
      • Oliver 4 mths ago
        I didn't mean that as all Muslims are crazy, but of all the crazy religious people, followers of Islam seem to have the craziest ones.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      If a Muslim peed on the Bible, what do you think the reaction would be?
      • julius 4 mths ago
        the muslins have been doing that for years since the ottoman empire,and killing christians everywhere
      • Anton 4 mths ago
        Hooray for the muslims then !
      • RocDoc 4 mths ago
        The Bible is the word of God,do whatever you will,but you can't change that fact.
    • Dead  •  4 mths ago
      Yeah maybe Padma did not want to catch any flak being in proximity to him, although Salman was nothing more than a stepping stone for her own career boost.
    • just me  •  4 mths ago
      sounds like a name out of a "shrek" movie
    • Anton  •  4 mths ago
      Hey religious idiots of all types - there is no god, you have been duped and anything you do in your stupid f'cked up brainwashed mind in the name of a god makes you absolutely #$%$ wrong. How can you be so god #$%$ stupid believing in the myths and legends of fairytale stories passed down orally by illiterate gaping peasants from the bronze age ? Seriously - think about it for a minute.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      @veraci :"Rush-to-die is guilty of slander, libel and defamation and deserves every bit of hardship and punishment possible. The Islamic Anti-defamation League is doing a good job to make sure people do not hide behind free speech for criminal activity." This is soo true!
    • Harsha  •  , India  •  4 mths ago
      Fatwa is just immoral.. Govt should take steps to capture persons who issues these things.. Fatwa means an order to kill.. Who the hell these people to order a person should be alive or die!!
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