A year later, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for Rushdie’s death. Customers who viewed this item also viewed of Start over 24.95 21.00 34. Rushdie came into the limelight after his book “The Satanic Verses” was banned in 1988 by a host of countries, including India which was then governed by Rajiv Gandhi, over content that Muslims considered “blasphemous”. This item: The Satanic Verses 1927 Midnights Children: A Novel 2277 Shame 2100 Total price: 63.04 Add all three to Cart Some of these items ship sooner than the others. The author fell down on the floor after being attacked by the assailant. As per eyewitnesses, the attacker stormed the stage and begin punching and stabbing Rushdie when he was being introduced. On August 12, an assailant named Hadi Matar attacked ‘The Satanic Verses’ author when he was about to give a lecture at Chautauqua Institution in New York. In addition to this, versions of his 2012 memoir Joseph Anton that chronicles his decade of life under police protection, occupied the four top spots on the religious intelligence and persecution list. The author’s other works have also becoming popular, with Midnight’s Children reaching 10th on the contemporary literature and fiction list.
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