Time of India
Iran's government will "track down" those responsible for making an amateurish film clip mocking the Prophet Mohammad, a senior official said, Iranian media reported on Monday. The video made in California and posted on YouTube portrayed the Prophet...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Iran's top leader is urging the West to show it respects Muslims by blocking a film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad and has touched off rage across the Islamic world. State TV quotes Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying Western leaders must prove they...
Daily News & Analysis
Salman Rushdie feels "hurt" by the "rebuffs" given to him by India where his books are rejected for university syllabus on the grounds that he was "not really" an Indian writer. "What kind of rebuff" from India had "hurt him a lot", he was asked...
International Business Times
The bounty on Rushdie head has been brought up to $3.3m (Reuters) The fatwa against Salman Rushdie has been revived in the wake of spreading Muslim anger over a crude anti-Islamic film. A powerful Iranian ayatollah has increased the bounty on the...
Indian Express
Rushdie was forced to go into hiding after Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his death in 1989 following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses. "I always said that what happened to me was a prologue and there...
BBC
Satanic Verses 'would not be published today' Sir Salman said writers and publishers needed to 'be braver' Sir Salman Rushdie has said he does not think his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses would be published today because of a climate of "fear and...