Muslim response to Paris executions, page-3

"In 1988, publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses” led Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa against Rushdie, with a huge bounty for his death. This triggered several attacks on the novel’s translators, publishers and booksellers, including the murder of Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi. Millions of Muslims around the world who had never read a single line of the book, and who had never even met Rushdie before, wanted him dead. Interesting fact, 24% of Iranians at the time couldn’t even read. (Source: “The West Is Choked by Fear”, Der Speigel Jan 4, 2010,)

In light of the Paris executions, the West and the Western Press should insist that Iran and the Iranian Cleric who recently renewed this fatwa withdraws it forthwith.

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