Rushdie Rage Redux by Robert Spencer

It is hard to avoid a sense of déjà vu -- last Friday there were demonstrations in many parts of the Islamic world against the knighting of Salman Rushdie. For many, the Rushdie Affair of 1989, when Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini first issued the now-notorious fatwa calling for Rushdie to be murdered, was their introduction to the Islamic fanaticism that now dominates the daily headlines. But could Muslims possibly still be angry with Salman Rushdie, after all these years?

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