How I Hid Salman Rushdie During the Fatwa

Twenty years ago this week, the Ayatollah issued a fatwa against the author of The Satanic Verses. Then I brought him into my house to hide from the assassins.

Published Feb. 9 2009 1:27AM EST

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It was twenty years ago, on St Valentine’s Day, that the Ayatollah Khomeini launched the mother of all prosecutions against Salman Rushdie, author of The

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How I Hid Salman Rushdie During the Fatwa

Twenty years ago this week, the Ayatollah issued a fatwa against the author of The Satanic Verses. Then I brought him into my house to hide from the assassins.

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Geoffrey Robertson