Forty media outlets add extra $600000 to devout edict originally issued by Ayatollah Khomeini over The Satanic VersesForty state-hasten media outlets in Iran have pooled together to raise $600000 (£420000) to add to the fatwa on writer Salman Rushdie,27 years after Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, or called for Rushdie’s assassination following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses.
According to the state-hasten Fars news agency,the media outlets have pooled together to raise a original bounty, in the largest coordinated effort surrounding the fatwa since it was issued in 1989, and when Khomeini declared The Satanic Verses blasphemous against Islam and offered a bounty for the novelist’s assassination. The total funds theoretically available to reward Rushdie’s murder now hasten into millions of dollars.
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Source: theguardian.com