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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."
Scott the book in Slate , and this site has an impressive listing of links to articles on Rushdie's books, life, and the fatwa .)
In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Ladin and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a "World Islamic Front."
For Bin Ladin's 1996 fatwa, see Bin Ladin, "Declaration of War,"Aug.
The February 1998 fatwa thus seems to have been a kind of public launch of a renewed and stronger al Qaeda, after a year and a half of work.