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Salman Rushdie Fights 'Moronic' Facebook

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:20:00 CST

Writer Salman Rushdie was furious at "moronic" Facebook yesterday after the network took down his profile because operators thought it was fake. To start it up again, he was ordered to send in a copy of his passport—then told to use the name Ahmed because that's what appears on...

Ian McEwan: I Sheltered Rushdie After 1989 Fatwa

Jason Farago — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:55:53 CST

Twenty years after the Iranian leadership declared a death sentence on Salman Rushdie, fellow novelist Ian McEwan reveals that he sheltered the writer in a house in the English countryside. In a long profile of McEwan in the New Yorker , the novelist describes how the pair listened to news of...

Fatwa Against Rushdie Set Off Self-Censorship

Kevin Spak — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:27:37 CST

When Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens knew what it meant: "This was not just a warning of what was to come,” he writes in Vanity Fair, “it was the warning.” A global culture war, between Muslim fundamentalists and everyone else, had begun. Now Khomeini is...

That's Sir Salman Rushdie

Kevin Spak — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:54:03 CDT

Queen Elizabeth officially knighted Salman Rushdie today, the AP reports, a year after the award was announced to widespread Muslim protest. “I have no regrets about any of my work,” said Rushdie, when asked about his novel The Satanic Verses, for which the Shah of Iran awarded him a “death...

Rushdie Honor Sparks Furor

J. Kelman — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:05:33 CDT

Pakistan wants Britain to revoke Salman Rushdie's just-granted knighthood—and the UK should prepare for suicide attacks if it doesn't, a Pakistani cabinet minister said today. "If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so unless the British government apologizes and withdraws the 'sir'...