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Among the few Muslim countries that still condone stoning, Iran uses it most often. Although Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is said to have discouraged the practice because of the brutal image it gave Islam, conservative judges have inflicted the punishment recently, most likely to embarrass and undermine reformist President Mohammed Khatami. Iran's penal code specifies, "The stoning of an adulterer or adulteress shall be carried out while each is placed in a hole and covered with soil, he up to his waist and she up to a line above her breasts." Court-appointed officials or ordinary citizens then pelt...
...vocation as an artist and truth-seeker. For much of the 90s, Rushdie was refused entrance into his native India; the country banned his novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, followed by Sri Lanka and Pakistan, for its alleged insult against Muslims. A year later, Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa for Rushdie’s head. And though he was later issued a visa to return to India nearly a decade after his exile, Rushdie had already established a reputation as a national and literary outsider, living in hiding and tip-toeing around a troubled society...
...AYATULLAH KHOMEINI...
...Person of the Year is the one who, for better or for worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year. But when Ayatullah Khomeini was chosen, many readers could not accept the "or worse" provision. Khomeini's fundamentalist Islamic revolution overthrew the Shah of Iran and gripped the nation in a despotic, anti-Western regime. With his blessing, militants held 52 Americans hostage for months. TIME received 5,200 letters--far more than for any other Person of the Year--most of them protesting the selection...
...Year, the illustration was of him playing the Organ of Death with skeletons all over it. It was not meant to be an honor to Hitler. The reaction to it was surprisingly mute. But then again, I think it was because it was 1938. The selection of Khomeini was controversial. And a few hundred people did cancel their subscription...