Joseph Anton
On 14 February 1989, Valentine''s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been ''sentenced to death'' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being ''against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran''.
So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was for...
On 14 February 1989, Valentine''s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been ''sentenced to death'' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being ''against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran''.
So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was for...
