Tag: Fatwa
After the Salman Rushdie attack – because they appear un-Islamic: artists as fatwa victims – culture
contents Her head was claimed because she appeared un-Islamic: the singer Aryana Sayeed was given a fatwa – like Salman Rushdie. As news of the stabbing attack on author Salman…
a fatwa with many victims
It only took a few pages of one of his novels for Salman Rushdie to find himself in mortal danger. By publishing The Satanic Verses, a passage of which was…
Salman Rushdie stabbed: “A fatwa, once issued, no one can ever withdraw it”
Writer and journalist Abnousse Shalmani considers Salman Rushdie “one of the greatest living writers of magic realism, along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez”. “My first reaction is to be upset and…
Novelist Salman Rushdie, target of a fatwa for 33 years, victim of a knife attack
Salman Rushdie is taken on a stretcher to be taken to hospital after being attacked during a conference in Chautauqua, United States, August 12, 2022. PA Years. Salman Rushdie spent…
“Nothing justifies a fatwa”, indignant Charlie Hebdo
“Nothing justifies a fatwa, a death sentence”, was indignant Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper decimated by an Islamist attack in 2015, after the attack on the writer Salman Rushdie,…
Attack on Salman Rushdie: The Imam’s curse weighed on the author for 33 years. Now the fatwa seems to have caught up with him. Why was it ever pronounced?
The Indian-British writer is seriously injured after a knife attack. The alleged reason for the violence can be found in the condemnation of a book that hardly any fundamentalist has…
A fatwa with long-term effects
In February 1989, the Iranian revolutionary leader called on all Muslims to kill the author of the “Satanic Verses”. Behind the fatwa was more political calculation than religious conviction. Despite…
These “Satanic Verses” That Won Salman Rushdie a Fatwa
Reserved for subscribers Published in September 1988, this satirical novel resulted in a murderous fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini against the British writer and his publishers. By Catherine Golliau Published on…