7/6/2023 0 Comments Salman rushdie the satanic![]() ![]() I doubt very much that Khomeini or anyone else in Iran has read the book or more than selected extracts out of context.” Salman Rushdie in Cartagena at a previous Hay festival (photo: AFP/Getty Images) The assassinations It’s not true that this book is a blasphemy against Islam. ![]() I’m very sad that it should have happened. Rushdie, talking about the fatwa on BBC Radio 4, said: “Frankly, I wish I had written a more critical book. British Labour MP Keith Vaz led a march through Leicester shortly after he was elected in 1989 calling for the book to be banned, while Norman Tebbit, the party’s former chairman, called Rushdie an “outstanding villain” whose “public life has been a record of despicable acts of betrayal of his upbringing, religion, adopted home and nationality”. ![]()
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