![]() ![]() But the writer could no longer maintain his resistance to such an amazing tale. ![]() And when he finally did exhume his journals and set about writing the memoir, he did his best to keep it short. The author himself lived a cloak-and-dagger existence, governed by around-the-clock police protection, for more than a decade until Western governments forced the Iranians to suspend the fatwa.īut Rushdie set his own story aside, returning to novels. Rushdie's Norwegian publisher took three bullets in an attempted assassination and bombings targeted other European publishers. Scores of people ultimately died in so-called Rushdie riots around the world. ![]() Rushdie's story began in 1989 with Muslim protests against allegedly blasphemous passages in his novel The Satanic Verses, and turned horrific when the dying Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued an edict (fatwa) demanding Muslims worldwide make it their duty to kill the author. ![]()
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