Sunday Open Thread: Fatwa Edition

by Publius

Today, in 1989, Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on Salman Rushdie, encouraging Muslims to kill the author, because we wrote a book. (Also today, Al Capone delivered his own fatwa on the North Side Irish gang of Bugs Moran.) Happy Valentine’s Day.

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Posted Feb 14th 2010 at 3:03 am in Open Threads | 106 Comments