Crime
France’s ‘teenage Rushdie’ earns 50,000 death threats with one jibe at Islam (LINK ONLY)
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Salman Rushdie
Demonstrations
New York mosques to protest Macron’s ‘blatant disrespect of the prophet’
(IPT) A consortium of New York mosques plans to protest at the French Consulate in Manhattan this Sunday to express their rage at Emmanuel Macron’s support for publishing caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad. “The French President is directly provoking the Muslim world […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Salman Rushdie asks Twitter to remove Islamophobic comments falsely attributed to him (LINK ONLY)
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Books
‘I don’t want to hide,’ says Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa
(AFP) After decades spent in the shadow of a death sentence pronounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie is quietly defiant. “I don’t want to live hidden away,” he told AFP during a visit to Paris. The novelist’s life changed forever on […]
Books
Rushdie: from fatwa fugitive to free speech hero
(AFP) On February 14, 1989, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for British writer Salman Rushdie to be killed for writing “The Satanic Verses,” which the cleric said insulted Islam. In a fatwa, or religious decree, Khomeini urged “Muslims of the […]