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Scott the book in Slate , and this site has an impressive listing of links to articles on Rushdie's books, life, and the fatwa .)
At about the time when the Taliban were making their final drive toward Jalalabad and Kabul, Bin Ladin issued his August 1996 fatwa, saying that "We . . . have been prevented from addressing the Muslims," but expressing relief that "by the grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan."
In Corriere della Sera , a front-page comment by Tullio Kezich, headlined "Shame on you, Hollywood," complained that "this undisputed giant of the Seventh Art" won only one Oscar, and that only for the special effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey . In La Repubblica , in which his death was the main front-page lead Monday, Michele Serra compared him to Salman Rushdie, but as a fugitive from "another kind of fatwa, a typically Western one: condemnation to fame, photographs and interviews, television and awards ceremonies, juries and society; because he was, after all, the most famous and celebrated living author of the most important language of the century, the cinema."
Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson as saying in Tehran Sunday that Iran had assured her that the death sentence on Rushdie would not be carried out, although the Ayatollah Khomeini's "fatwa" against him "cannot be revoked."
The invasion of a mummy's tomb results in a fatwa made flesh--or, if not flesh, then bandages and bones rendered really really nasty by righteous wrath.
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