Video Salman Rushdie has been targeted since 1989 by a Fatwa launched by Iranian Ayatollah Khomeyni because of his novel “Les Versets Satanique”. If the author was the victim of a knife attack on August 12, he is far from being the only victim of this call to murder.
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It only took a few pages from one of his novels for Salman Rushdie to find himself in danger of death. By publishing the satanic verses, a passage of which was judged blasphemous by the Ayatollah Khomeyni in 1989, the British author was targeted by a fatwa according to which Tehran offered three million dollars to anyone who would shoot the writer.
On August 12, at a conference in New York State, Salman Rushdie was the victim of a violent knife attack, which he survived after being helicopter in the hospital. However, he is not the only victim of this Iranian fatwa. Two of his translators were stabbed: Japanese, Hitoshi Igarashi, died from his injuries, but the Italian, Ettore Capriolo, survived. Another translator – Turkish – was targeted in 1993 by a criminal fire in Sivas, Turkey. He managed to escape from the hotel in flames, but 37 people died in the fire, including 33 intellectuals.