Matar, in a jailhouse interview with The New York Post after his arrest, praised Khomeini and said Rushdie “attacked Islam.”
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Iran's Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for his death after interpreting the author's novel "The Satanic Verses" as blasphemous.
Salman Rushdie, in rare address after violent attack, warns that West is closing in on free speech
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