University Wire, September 28th, 2005
University Wire 09-28-2005 (Tufts Daily) (U-WIRE) MEDFORD, Mass. -- Author Salman Rushdie poked fun at his old nemesis, the former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, Tuesday night. "One of us is dead," Rushdie said. Khomeini pronounced a fatwa -- a Muslim religious decree -- on Rushdie after the 1988 publication of his book "The Satanic Verses." The decree said the book was blasphemous and amounted to a world-wide death sentence. It was not lifted for nine years. Rushdie spoke in Cohen Auditorium in the third installment of the Richard E. Snyder President's Lecture Series. The opening ...
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