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[Foreign Policy] The Fatwa - By Kenan Malik | Foreign Policy: In places like Egypt, Jordan, and Malaysia, wherethe Islamists once held high hopes of repeating Khomeini's success, theirinfluence has been curtailed, admittedly often through brutal repression.Outside of the rare cases where social convulsions shaped the politicallandscape for a short period, such as in Algeria in 1991, when elections tookplace on the eve of civil war, and with the single exception of Hamas in Gaza in2006 (and the disputed Iranian elections of 2009), no Islamist party has everwon more than 20 percent of the popular vote. Parties that have broken throughthe 20 percent barrier (in Algeria, Tunisia, and Turkey, for instance) havedone so largely by shedding their Islamist trappings, renouncing their dreamsof a caliphate, and becoming ordinary political parties with Muslim leanings --and in the process often becoming better democrats than the secularists theytoppled.

[the Complete Review] From Fatwa to Jihad - Kenan Malik:        From Fatwa to Jihad considers the disturbing narrowing of free speech and the attendant consequences of this in -- in particular -- Western Europe over the past two decades, and the role the controversies surrounding The Satanic Verses and then the Danish cartoons (published in Jyllands-Posten in 2005) have played in this. For Malik, these two controversies had little to do with what the fuss was ostensibly all about -- insults to Islam -- but rather were politically motivated, serving (very successfully) to advance the profile and agendas of specific interest groups that are hardly representative of those they often claim to represent.

[India: A billion aspirations] Are there too many 'sacred' topics in India? | Analysis & Opinion |: The Hindu King in Muslim India” by American James Laine was banned after a little known rightwing group ransacked the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune, which Laine had mentioned in his acknowledgement.

[Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog] Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog » What is a Fatwa?: Whether or not Yusuf Islam supported the fatwa issued by the Ayatollah doesn’t really matter, all it does is serve to point out how barbaric people can be when incited by centuries-old scripture that really has no place in modern society. I don’t think anyone can claim that Yusuf’s association with Islam and his tour of Australia pose anywhere near as big a problem to society as the poisonous views of the Mufti.

[Pro-Iran] Imam Khomeini's biography: Because the deaths of the leading, although quiescent, Shiite religious leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Borujerdi (1961), and of the activist cleric Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani (1962) left the arena of leadership open to Imam Khomeini, who had attained a prominent religious standing by the age of 60. In addition, although ever since the rise of Reza Shah Pahlavi to power in the 1920s the clerical class had been on the defensive because of his secular and anticlerical policies and those of his son, Mohammad Reza Shah, these policies reached their peak in the early 1960s with White Revolution.

[The Student Operated Press] Islamic Edict In UAE Condemns Vuvuzelas: A couple of years ago a fatwa was issued condemning to death Western cartoonists for depicting Mohammad. Most of us remember when the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling on all good Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie for writing the "blasphemous" Satanic Verses.

[Jihad Watch] Ayatollah Khomeini's Rushdie Fatwa - the UN Commission on Human ...: A Rushdie ricochet has just occurred in Paris, with yet another death menace for a French singer, Vbronique Sanson, because of a song - a song with a misunderstood, compassionate prayer (IHT, 2 March 1989). Sir, this is but one more foretaste of a bitter cup whose potent contents were made crystal clear to the international community on 7 December 1984, when the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran reiterated to the UN General Assembly his government's position.

[Articles on CollegiateTimes.com] Remember the anniversary of the Salman Rushdie fatwa ...: Apart from being a high-ranking religious authority, he was also the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a nation of tens of millions. The Ayatollah’s proclamation quickly became a controversial issue and today can be considered one of the opening shots on our current battle with radical Islam.

[Info About Timberline Lodge Ski Report] Info About Timberline Lodge Ski Report » Berlin New Penns ...: While many assume that Hitchens first asked of his comrades where do you stand in the aftermath of 9/11, his first mini-rupture with the left can be found in a slim, affecting chapter on the Ayatollah Khomeni’s fatwa against his friend Salman Rushdie, issued shortly after the publication of Rushdie’s more-commented-upon-than-read novel The Satanic Verses. The feminist writer Germaine Greer, Hitchens reminds us, was “noisily defending the rights of bookburners”

[CCRHS Blog] Fatwa No More « CCRHS Blog: I am not unaware that we have now lived for two decades under the pall cast by Imam Khomeini’s so-called fatwa”” strictly speaking it was a hukm or command, like a qazi’s””against Salman Rushdie. But I place more faith in the history of fatwas in South Asia.

[KurdNet News ekurd.net] Barmak Behdad, the Kurdish translator of Salman Rushdie's infamous ...: Behdad left Iran in 2001 and now lives in the Kurdish north of Iraq, where he works as a journalist and translator. This February, he published a translation of the first chapter of The Satanic Verses in the magazine Khalak, with plans to print following chapters in subsequent issues of the magazine.

[The India Post] Islamic Fatwa(s) challenging Human Rights | The India Post: At global level, Fatwa first time came into limelight when in 1989 the leader of Islamic Revolution in Iran and the topmost cleric of Shiite community Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a Fatwa of death against the author Salman Rushdie for his controversial book ”˜The Satanic Verses’ which allegedly showed Prophet Mohammad in bad light. Lately, some years ago similar kind of Fatwa was issued against Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen.

[Medya News English] Haunted by Satanic verses: The Kurdish translator of Salman ...: For a young Iranian hoping to thumb his nose at Iran’s Islamic government, and at radical Muslims in general, translating and promoting Rushdie’s novel must be among the most inflammatory actions one could undertake. But Barmak Behdad, an Iranian Kurd who earlier this year translated The Satanic Verses into Kurdish, was motivated as much by art as by politics.

[Reason Magazine Full Feed] Why Mr. Anti-Bullshit Won't Call Out Islam or Scientology - Hit ...: Hello all my name is Mahmoud and duh am a Muslim who lives inJordan I ju st wanna say that what you perceive as Muslims arewrong as u should know the acts of a few does not reflect the actof the community I for one respect everyones opinion and that theyr free to pray, eat, drink and believe in whatever they want andlike one comment here Christianity and jewdism are a part of Islamso if they r attacking those two religions they r in essence alsoattacking Islam all I want to say is please don't think of islam asthis evil murderous religion because it's not at all I don'tconfront every Jew about Palestine cause it's not their fault it'sjust his religion anyways I really hope this idea about Islam wouldchange.

[Tumbou's Blog] International Guerillas: On 26 August 2008 Rushdie received an apology at the High Court in London from all three parties, but contrary although the film International Guerrillas or International Gorillay portrayed Salman Rushdie very negatively, he opposed the ruling of the BBFC, arguing that: As a writer, I am opposed in principle to the use of the archaic criminal laws of blasphemy, sedition and criminal libel against creative works, even in the case of a film which quite plainly vilifies me. The ban was overturned.

[joyhuang12] Author Salman Rushdie says fatwa over 'Satanic Verses' only minor ...: Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie says the death sentence imposed on him by Iran’s late leader no longer affects his daily life, but the issue still hasn’t

[Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog] Salman Rushdie Planning to Write About Years in Hiding Because of ...: Last year marked 20 years since the Iranian leader called for Rushdie's execution, saying that his novel The Satanic Verses insulted Islam, Mohammed and the Qur'an. The edict, which followed street protests and book burnings across the Muslim world, forced Rushdie to go into hiding under police protection for almost 10 years.

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