It won’t matter if the government of Iran falls. The fatwas against Rushdie and others are eternal. The very nature of the fatwas requires the faithful to kill for Islam. The fatwa’s power is that “it is a few sentences read aloud on Radio Tehran, mere breath, that will remain its most successful method of exporting the Islamist revolution, even after the murderous regime it created goes down.”
(Rick Moran – PJ Media) It was Valentine’s Day 1989, and in addition to all the love poems, hearts, candy, and flowers, the Muslim leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was in high dudgeon about… something.
This wasn’t unusual for Khomeini. He could play the Western media like Charlie Daniels’s fiddle, forcing the media to cover him while he made some sort of outrageous, exaggerated comment about one of his many, many enemies.
This was different. Khomeini issued a fatwa against an obscure British writer named Salman Rushdie for writing a book titled Satanic Verses.
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