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Iranian Media Outlets Add To Bounty On Author Salman Rushdie
Huffington (Com)Post ^

Posted on 02/23/2016 10:17:24 AM PST by TigerClaws

ANKARA (Reuters) - Iranian state-run media outlets have added $600,000 to a bounty for the killing of British author Salman Rushdie imposed in 1989 over the publishing of his book "The Satanic Verses."

The leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, that called on Muslims to the kill the author after his book was condemned as blasphemous, forcing him into years of hiding.

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1 posted on 02/23/2016 10:17:25 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Nothing to do with Islam.


2 posted on 02/23/2016 10:19:47 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: TigerClaws

Well, naturally, now that they all those additional billions to work with.


3 posted on 02/23/2016 10:20:40 AM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: william clark

That is where our money goes.


4 posted on 02/23/2016 10:28:33 AM PST by Jane Austen (Marco Rubio, the White Obama)
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To: samtheman

Islam is the modern version of Murder, Inc.


5 posted on 02/23/2016 10:29:22 AM PST by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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To: Sasparilla

Islam has been murdering innocent people since its beginnings in the 7th century.


6 posted on 02/23/2016 10:30:31 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: TigerClaws

Rushdie has enough Cash to put a bounty on Komenei head should he be killed. “I die, you die for $10M!”


7 posted on 02/23/2016 10:55:36 AM PST by bubman
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To: samtheman

Of course it has noting to do with Islam. And isn’t it great we are playing nice with these good, decent, people running Iran.
Owebowma is the greatest man in the world!!!
(I almost barfed)


8 posted on 02/23/2016 11:10:41 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: TigerClaws

Islam, the religion of peace? Can’t believe this guy is still alive.


9 posted on 02/23/2016 11:13:13 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: TigerClaws

I hear he’s gone to ground and is using the name Sal Bass.


10 posted on 02/23/2016 12:25:42 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TigerClaws

They cannot be accused of having short memories!


11 posted on 02/23/2016 12:34:33 PM PST by Cuttnhorse
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