Ayatollah Khomeini and Salman Rushdie death sentence proclamation

"I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses book which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death."

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
FATWA issued February, 1989
against Salman Rushdie
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Quotes from just after the Islamic Revolution in 1979:

"The mullahs are going to rule now. We are going to have ten thousand years of the Islamic republic. The Marxists are going to go on with their Lenin. We are going to go on in the way of Khomeini." [Ayatollah Khalkhali]

"What he [Stalin] did in Russia we have to do in Iran. We, too, have to do a lot of killing. A lot."
Behzad, Iranian interpreter for [Western journalist V.S. Naipaul]

"There is no room for play in Islam... It is deadly serious about everything."
[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Speech at Qum, reported in Timemagazine January 7, 1980]

"Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion... faith in the power of words." [Norman Mailer, at a meeting of authors ragarding the fatwa, New York City, February 1989]

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