Word: salman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie...
...Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdi...
...Salman Rushdie was a shameful choice to chronicle Gandhi's life. Rushdie has lived outside India for most of his life. He should not be the one writing about a brave, inspiring and selfless leader. Sure, Gandhi is not short of critics, but he stood firm against the greatest power of the time and saw the realization of a free and self-ruled India. RAJESH L. MAHTANI Hong Kong
...rally his demoralized supporters, he issued the celebrated fatwa condemning to death the writer Salman Rushdie for heresies contained in his novel The Satanic Verses. Though born a Muslim, Rushdie was not a Shi'ite; a British subject, he had no ties to Iran. The fatwa, an audacious claim of authority over Muslims everywhere, was the revolution's ultimate export. Khomeini died a few months later. But the fatwa lived on, a source of bitterness--as he intended it to be--between Iran and the West...
...conversations in his spacious salon overlooking the Nile, Abdul Koddus stresses the Brotherhood's desire to adopt the best of Western values. "I ask for political freedom for everybody," he says, rejecting the goal of militant groups to establish an Islamic dictatorship. Yet he believes that British author Salman Rushdie should be put on trial for blasphemy, and he refuses to condemn Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, convicted on terrorism charges in New York City. And there can be no peace with Israel, he adds, so long as the Jewish state occupies Jerusalem...