Rushdie fatwa looms again amid new protests
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Angry Islamists protested against Britain&#39;s knighthood for Salman Rushdie Friday, as an Iranian cleric said the death sentence on the writer was still valid 18 years on.
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Controversy over a knighthood for author Salman Rushdie escalated into a full-blown diplomatic row as Iran and Pakistan summoned Britain&#39;s ambassadors to protest, drawing a retort from London.
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Iran accused Britain on Sunday of insulting Islamic values by knighting Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant against him.
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Author Salman Rushdie said on Monday he was "thrilled and humbled" to be awarded a British knighthood but he had no comment on anger in Iran and Pakistan where his book "The Satanic Verses" outraged many Muslims.
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Security forces are on high alert as more protests are planned after last week's attack on a political rally in Dhaka.
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There has been a big protest in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi against the rule of the country&#39;s president, Gen Pervez Musharraf.
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Iran on Saturday accused British leaders of &quot;Islamophobia&quot; for knighting Indian-born author Salman Rushdie, who was issued with a death fatwa by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago.
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[World News]: London, Dec 26 : Author Salman Rushdie has said he was horrified by the British government&#39;s response to Sikh protests that forced a play in Birmingham to be cancelled.
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Salman Rushdie, the novelist who faced a death sentence for writing The Satanic Verses, has condemned the British Government for failing to protect a Sikh playwright.
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Author Salman Rushdie, issued with a fatwa by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago, and former England cricketer Ian Botham were awarded knighthoods by Britain&#39;s Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday.
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Britain insisted Wednesday it was right to knight Salman Rushdie for his literary career, adding it was &quot;sorry&quot; if it had caused distress, after protests spread in the Muslim world and a prominent cleric called for the novelist to be killed.
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Religious and political leaders say that there is a crisis in Islam because too many fatwas are being issued.
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London - Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who faced a death sentence for writing The Satanic Verses, condemned the government for failing to protect a Sikh playwright who has been forced into hiding to escape death threats, in comments published on
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Noted author Salman Rushdie has called on Congress to strike down a section of the anti-terror Patriot Act laws allowing federal officials to monitor the book-buying and library-borrowing habits of US citizens.
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The militant demand that a French ban on Islamic head scarves be overturned has raised an unprecedented backlash among religious and political leaders in the Middle East, who have often been silent about hostage slayings and other terrorism.
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The government insisted Wednesday it was right to knight Salman Rushdie for his literary career, adding it was &quot;sorry&quot; if it had caused distress, after protests spread in the Muslim world and a prominent cleric called for the novelist to be killed.
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Muslim radicals burned an effigy of Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday as Pakistan summoned the British ambassador over Salman Rushdie&#39;s knighthood and Iranian hardliners turned their fury on the monarch.