The Guardian view on Salman Rushdie: democracy relies on the right to dissent | Editorial
Aug 16, 2022
2 minutes
Even before a dying Ayatollah Khomeini deemed The Satanic Verses so blasphemous that he issued a in 1989 calling for Sir Salman Rushdie to be murdered, the author had been defiant. Rushdie told an Indian magazine before the novel’s publication, in an interview in which he plainly understood the furies that the book would unleash. It was banned”.
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