Fatwa Against Salman Rushdie:
“I hereby inform all proud Muslims worldwide that the author of the book ‘The Satanic Verses,’ whose printed text includes insults to Islam and the Prophet, as well as those publishers who are aware of its contents, are sentenced to death. I request that proud Muslims execute this sentence against them wherever they are found, so that no one else will dare to insult Muslims’ sacred beliefs. Whoever is killed in this mission is a martyr, God willing. Additionally, whoever is unable to put his hands on the authors or is unable to execute them should guide the people to them, and the people will give him a reward for his good work.”“Confessions Salman Rushdie / ‘I think that I have come to an end,’” Fars News, February 14, 2012, http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13911125001458