Word: khomeini
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...invocation of place. Seldom has a city been so strongly, affectionately and vividly portrayed as the Bombay of Midnight’s Children and the Moor’s Last Sigh. Rushdie has only relatively recently emerged from hiding following the unilateral death warrant that was issued by Imam Khomeini of Iran after the publication of The Satanic Verses, and Fury is Rushdie’s first book since this emergence. What Rushdie calls fury abounds in the minor, miniscule details of everyday life, something Rushdie has been forcibly removed from for more than a decade in hiding...
Rushdie, a native of India, is the author of more than a dozen best-selling novels including The Satanic Verses, for which former Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini Rushdie condemned him to death in 1989 for its alleged attacks on Islamic religion. Rushdie went into hiding for several years after a reward of a million dollars was offered for his murder...
...that simple, but personalizing the threat - while it distorts both the nature of the problem and the remedy - is a time-honored tradition. Before Bin Laden, the face of the global terror threat against Americans belonged to the Palestinian radical Abu Nidal. Or was it Colonel Ghaddafi? Ayatolla Khomeini, perhaps? And does anyone even remember the chubby jowls of Carlos the Jackal, whose image drawn from an old passport picture was once the icon of global terror...
...President underestimates their frustration. "After all these years, we're not prepared to take a step backwards," said Maryam Gholabi, 21, a medical student. More revealing than any of the student speeches or placards was the absence of photos of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the late Ayatollah Khomeini, whose pictures adorn every public space in Iran. That day at Tehran University, the pillar on which Khamenei's photo normally hangs was bare...
...more of a plodder than a brinksman. He will tell you about his long march, starting in '48 salvaging World War II rifles in the Egyptian desert. Yet the allure of a knockout punch has always proved his undoing. He envies the F.L.N. triumph over the French in Algeria, Khomeini's thundering revolution in Iran. His Palestine Liberation Organization gambits to become the de facto leader in Jordan and later in Lebanon dragged both countries into civil war. In the Gulf War, he bet on Saddam. This was all well before Arafat was ever on speaking terms with the Israelis...