German Author Wants to Read Satanic Verses in Mosque

    A German book author said he wants to read aloud inside a Cologne mosque from “The Satanic Verses,” the 1988 novel by Salman Rushdie that some Muslims consider blasphemous and led to a 1989 fatwa against Rushdie. Just before political and religious leaders met in Berlin for the second national integration summit, journalist and author…

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      Salman Rushdie’s Knighthood Provokes Cries of Rage Among Mollahs

      Salman Rushdie’s knighthood provoked cries of rage among mollahs. The Pakistani Minister of Religious Affairs reckons that because of Rushdie’s provocations and blasphemies, it is not surprising that Muslims demonstrate their rage through violence and bombings. Several member of the Pakistani government expressed their own anger at the UK for exacerbating the alienation and indignation…

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        Muslim fury grows over Rushdie knighthood

        Outrage over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood threatened to ignite across the Muslim world yesterday. Security around the writer was reviewed by Scotland Yard as an Iranian group placed an _80,000 bounty on his head. The same group accused the Queen of mocking Muslims with the honour. In London, Lord Ahmed, Britain’s first Muslim peer, said he…

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