The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie, the British writer of Indian descent, may be the most famous in recent history. Rushdie's book, published in 1988, referred to the Prophet Muhammad and his wives and to the Qur'an. Verses. The book was banned from being translated and sold in the Arab world and India, and on February 14, 1989, a fatwa was issued by Rushdie with the blood of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, who said: And published against Islam and the Prophet and the Koran, as well as publishers of the book aware of its contents, have sentenced to death, and all Muslims to do so wherever they exist, so that no one dares to insult Islam.
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