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...knows better than Salman Rushdie that sometimes the blessings of liberty require more than just words...
Today, some might recall, is the fifth anniversary of the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei against Salman Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses. To call this date an anniversary, however, is to approach cognitive dissonance. It is an anniversary for which there are no gifts, no chocolates, no flowers no waltzes...
...Salman Rushdie is still a man with no fixed address. Rushdie is still in hiding writing nearly every day making public appearances on occasion but effectively under threat marked as with an incandescent X on his chest and black...
...across America and around the world will distribute with every purchase of books today Five years to the day after late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei proclaimed that the Indian born English author must die for slighting Islam in his novel. The Satanic Verses, the card serves to remind us of Salman Rushdie's Predicament...
...Salman Rushdie, describing his meeting with President Clinton to David Frost...