Salman Rushdie: Iranian state media renew fatwa on Satanic Verses author with $600,000 bounty

[ranjeet]

Forty state-run Iranian media outlets have jointly offered a new $600,000 bounty for the death of British Indian author Salman Rushdie, according to the state-run Fars News Agency.

Fars News Agency, which is closely affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was among the largest contributors, donating one billion Rials - nearly $30,000.

The announcement coincides with the anniversary of the fatwa issued the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, the agency said.

Ayatollah Khomeini, the First Supreme Leader of Iran, issued the fatwa against Rushdie on charges of blasphemy for his novel The Satanic Verses on 15 February, 1989.

The Ayatollah called for the death of the book's author along with anyone "involved in its publication".

Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses, was stabbed to death outside his office at Tsukuba University, the Italian translator Ettore Capriolo survived being stabbed at his apartment in Milan, and the novel's Norwegian publisher was shot three times in the back and left for dead outside his home in Oslo.

Protesters chant slogans to condemn Britain's knighting of the Indian-born author Salman Rushdie June 22, 2007 in Islamabad, Pakistan
Rushdie was put under police protection by the British government and spent many years in hiding.

While Iran's former President Mohammad Khatami said the threat against the author was "finished" in 1998, the fatwa has never officially been lifted.


Ayatollah Khomeini's successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in 2005 the order still stands.

The new bounty is the largest organised effort to assassinate Rushdie since the fatwa was issued.

It is currently unclear whether he has been made aware of the new bounty.

Last year, the Islamic Republic cancelled its appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair after Rushdie was announced as a speaker. They urged other Muslim nations to boycott the fair.

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[Guynextdoor2]

and just when you thought the insanity was ending......

 

[jammersat]

i would have donated too if i could have , Salman Rushdi is a biracial who like other indians , as i've mentioned before , tries to buy popularity by attacking muslims

 

[Cherokee]

Ayotallah is completely stupid . If Islam is so weak that a book by rushdie is shaking it's foundation than by all means leave it . If it is not let Prophet and Allah protect their own honor . I am sure believers would agree they are capable enough to handle a little human like rushdie .

 

[jammersat]

Ayotallah is completely stupid . If Islam is so weak that a book by rushdie is shaking it's foundation than by all means leave it . If it is not let Prophet and Allah protect their own honor . I am sure believers would agree they are capable enough to handle a little human like rushdie .

Leaving islam means accepting christianity , or worse Judaism , But that's not the point , Rushdie and the likes of Rushdie are trying to prove themselves to white people (and blacks too) by writing crap like the satanic verses ...

 

[Jaanbaz]

Indians creating trouble again.

 

[GreenApple]

...what happened to the freedom of expression...
..expect AAP and JNU unions to oppose it and lift ban on Satanic Verses in India...

 

[T-72M1]

nice, I think I like Rushdie some more after this.

fcuk the Iranian mullacracy

 

[Cherokee]

Leaving islam means accepting christianity , or worse Judaism , But that's not the point , Rushdie and the likes of Rushdie are trying to prove themselves to white people (and blacks too) by writing crap like the satanic verses ...

Leaving Islam doesn't mean you have to accept any other religion . You can be atheist like millions of us . Rushdie is not trying to prove anything, he wrote a book . A bad book at that .It became bestselller after the likes of ayotallah put money at his head and the likes of Indian govt banned it ( FYI Indian govt was the first govt to ban that book ) .

 

[jammersat]

nice, I think I like Rushdie some more after this.

fcuk the Iranian mullacracy

same for the indian caste system

Leaving Islam doesn't mean you have to accept any other religion . You can be atheist like millions of us .

i think i'm already that , except every atheist in the west is essentially a homo .. nothing less nothing more ,

Rushdie is not trying to prove anything, he wrote a book . A bad book at that .

i know , that's why i don't blame him

It became bestselller after the likes of ayotallah put money at his head and the likes of Indian govt banned it ( FYI Indian govt was the first govt to ban that book ) .

it became a best seller after the london riots ..

 

[Shapur]

I don't know why muslims have become so insecure, if you don't agree with him then kindly refute Salman Rushdie.
A proper muslim would pray for Salman Rushdi's guidance and introduce him to the works of Rumi etc so his misundrestandings regarding Islam can be cleared if he is sincere. If Salman Rushi has an agenda and is not sincere then all we can do it leave him be. To threaten to kill him is against the spirit of Islam.