Salman Rushdie receives knighthood in queen's birthday honors
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"I am thrilled and humbled to receive this great honor, and am very grateful that my work has been recognized in this way"  Author Salman Rushdie, who was forced into hiding for a decade after the leader of Iran's revolution ordered his assassination, has been made knight, Buckingham Palace announced Saturday. via Arizona Republic
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Ex-cricketer Ian Botham and novelist Salman Rushdie are among the new knights in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
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Pakistan's National Assembly condemns Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie.
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Iran accused Britain on Sunday of insulting Islam by awarding a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.
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From Salman Rushdie to Monty Python, free speech even if offensive is worth protecting, Britain's interior minister said on Wednesday, defending a knighthood for Rushdie which has drawn protests from Muslims.
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Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India in 1947. The son of a Cambridge-education Muslim businessman, Rushdie was sent to Rugby School in England when he was only fourteen years old.
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Britain said on Wednesday the award of a  state honor to author Salman Rushdie was based on literary  merit and was not meant to offend Muslims.
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Pakistan's foreign minister said Tuesday that Britain should not be surprised by the violent reaction in the Muslim world to the knighthood awarded to writer Salman Rushdie.
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A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics has bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for the author Salman Rushdie.
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Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri condemns the UK for giving novelist Salman Rushdie a knighthood.
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Pakistan deplored on Monday Britain's decision to award a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" outraged many Muslims around the world.
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Celebrated India-born author Sir Salman Rushdie and his wife Padma Lakshmi are divorcing after three years of marriage, friends have revealed.
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Islamic hardliners in Pakistan burned an effigy of Britain&#39;s Queen Elizabeth as senators joined mounting calls for London to withdraw Salman Rushdie&#39;s knighthood.
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Iran said on Sunday that a fatwa ordering the death of British writer Salman Rushdie issued by its revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini still stands after his knighthood by the queen.
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Pakistan deplored on Monday Britain's decision to award a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" outraged many Muslims around the world
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The assembly in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province says Salman Rushdie's knighthood is aimed at hurting Muslim feelings.
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British author Salman Rushdie and his  wife Padma Lakshmi, host of the television show &quot;Top Chef,&quot; are  getting divorced, just two weeks after he was awarded a British  knighthood, his spokeswoman said on Monday.