Here comes more fatwa for Sir Rushdie!

In 1988, a plain Salman Rushdie writes The Satanic Verses and earns a fatwa from the late
Ayatollah Khomeini from Iran seeking his death.

His offence was that his book spoke about how the prophet was misled by the devil. The book was banned in many Muslim countries, including Malaysia.

Since the fatwa Salman has been living in hiding for about nine years, at the expense of the British tax-payers, believed to be at a cost of almost 10 million British Pound.

It was not until 1998, when the Iranian government said that it would not support the outstanding fatwa, that the author took the decision to return to public life.

And now - 20 years later - once again, the author has become a target among the world Muslim community and government.

As the Times of London said, he is once again the subject of death threats across the Islamic world.

All because of his latest status as Sir Salman Rushdie - he was granted knighthood over the weekend.

The main complaint from his critics is that the knighthood looked as though he was awarded for his critical stance against Islam.

Some are even saying that the knighthood award was a justification for suicide bombing as it was "blasphemous and insulting" to the world's Muslims.

Hmmm? Let’s see how far this will go. I am sure there will be protests in the Muslim nations. In fact PAS will be submitting a protest memo to the British High Commission tomorrow.

A new fatwa? More hiding? And eventually more sales for his books - old and new alike.
Who says Salman is complaining?

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