Daily Star - Lebanon | V-day: 20 yrs of Rushdie fatwa Times of India - MUMBAI: On February 14, 1989, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini presented Salman Rushdie a deadly valentine. He issued a fatwa that called for the writer to be killed after the publication of Rushdie's fourth book The Satanic Verses, which, the cleric declared ... Anniversary of Rushdie book fatwa Salman Rushdie finds a new girlfriend |