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Rotten.comhttp://www.rotten.com [Rotten.com] At the end of the Iran-Iraq war, Khomeini faced a public that had been demoralized by massive casualties and a peace agreement which amounted to an outright defeat. To cheer up the masses, the normally humorless cleric decided to have a little fun and issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on Muslims everywhere to kill an obscure, semi-talented author named Salman Rushdie for writing a tepid book called The Satanic Verses:

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http://lali.wordpress.com [Lali.wordpress.com] Lali » Blog Archive » Guests of the Ayatollah: Inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, their original plan was to hold a three day protest of the American decision to allow exiled Iranian leader Shah Mohammed Reza to enter the U.S. to seek medical treatment. The hope of something small and peaceful turned into something much more severe and dangerous when the students took all of the sixty-six people inside the Embassy hostage, and kept most of them for 444 days.  After the Shah died the hostages were released, the date was January 20, 1981, which happened to coincide with Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as president of the United States.

Littlegreenfootballs.comhttp://www.littlegreenfootballs.com [Littlegreenfootballs.com] lgf: The Enemy Within: The infidels apostasy is only answered by Satan's followers meting out judgement and sentence here on earth -- so that Satan may excoriate the soul and roast it for eternity. [note: this 'roasting' business is proof-positive that Allah = Satan The judeaic God was fond of pillars of salt and smiting enemies of his word, but by the time the Christ came about and explained that, well, all those stories were just enthusiastic embellishments on a really quite peace-loving and peace-rewarding God's philosophy .

Danielpipes.org[Danielpipes.org] The Ayatollah, the Novelist, and the West - article by Daniel Pipes: Mohsen Reza'i, leader of the Islamic Revolution's Guard Corps announced the readiness of his forces "to carry out the imam's decree." Interior Minister 'Ali Akbar Mohtashemi called on Hizbullah to carry out the execution and the leaders of the Lebanese Hizbullah quickly promised to do "all that's possible to have the honor" of carrying out Khomeini's sentence. Other Lebanese groups, including Amal, the Islamic Unification Movement, the Jihad Organization for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine all promised likewise.

http://topics.nytimes.com [Topics.nytimes.com] Ruhollah Khomeini News - The New York Times: Rushdie, who has been in hiding since 1989, when his novel "The Satanic Verses" was deemed a mortal offense to Islam, sought to assuage the Muslim world last week by publicly embracing the faith and declaring that he did not share the offending views expressed by characters in his book. He also said he would now oppose the issuing of a paperback edition of "Verses." Some Muslim leaders in the United States and in Britain, where the Indian-born Mr.

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