On September 26, 1988, the novel by the Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdie, “The Satanic Verses”, appeared at the Viking Penguin publishing house. Fifteen days later, the first death threats arrived.
In Bolton, UK, the book was burned in the square on December 2nd. On December 28th, package bomb threats arrived at the Viking Penguin offices.
The New Year passed without incident. Then 1989 changed everything. It was Valentine’s Day when Khomeini’s fatwa arrived from Iran: “I inform the proud people of Islam that the author of the
‘Satanic Verses’ who is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication are sentenced to death ”.
There are many Hadi Matar’s who walk among us thanks to our malevolent immigration policy.
