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Four years after an extremist stabbed him, Salman Rushdie mulls visiting his attacker

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Four years after an extremist stabbed him, Salman Rushdie mulls visiting his attacker

Beginning on Valentine’s Day of 1989, the Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie had a sword hanging over his head. For a period of time, threats of death followed him everywhere. The bloody culmination of his life spent alternately on the run and in public — with near-lethal consequences — is captured in “Knife: The … Read more

How Salman Rushdie survived his assassin

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How Salman Rushdie survived his assassin

For over three decades, author Salman Rushdie had wondered when (or if) an assassin would come for him.  In 1988, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini declared his novel “The Satanic Verses” blasphemous and issued a fatwa (or Islamic ruling) calling for Rushdie’s death. Even musician (and convert to Islam) Cat Stevens — who wrote the iconic tune … Read more