His book The Satanic Verses offended Muslims worldwide and in 1989 led to Iran issuing a fatwa – a religious edict – ordering Rushdie's execution.
An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said yesterday: 'Honouring and commending an apostate and hated figure will definitely put the British officials in a position of confrontation with Islamic societies.
The Religion of Peace eh?
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And to think the idiots we have in Barnsley townhall say that Islam is a peacefull relegion!
Sureley if it was peacefull then they would not be making death threats?
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