Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses Enraged the Muslim World
In 1989, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for the author and those involved in the book's publication to be put to death.
(Photo: Salman Rushdie; Brother Luck/Alamy)
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This article originally appeared in print under the headline "The Satanic Verses".