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Fairview NJ, according to his agent, author Salman Rushdie is “on the road to recovery,” . Rushdie has been subject to a fatwa calling for his death since 1989 in response to his novel, The Satanic Verses, which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called an insult against Islam.
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini:
“Those who know nothing about Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those people are witless. Islam says: ‘Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all!’ Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by the infidel? Islam says: ‘Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter them.’ Islam says: ‘Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword.’ The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.”
