Salman Rushdie: Iran S Ayatollah Khomeini

Personal Account Dept: Rushdie s 633-page memoir delivers a deeply personal account of a decade spent in hiding after a fatwa, or religious edict, was issued for his death in 1989, according to CTV. The book was inspired, in part, by the life of Muhammad, and caused a great uproar in the Muslim community for what some Muslims believed were blasphemous religious references. Rushdie, however, claimed the book was never about religion, but rather the immigration of people from India s sub-continent to London and naming a new book isn t always easy for an author. But the task was both clear-cut and significant for Salman Rushdie on his latest effort, Joseph Anton: A Memoir. The fatwa was issued by Iran s Ayatollah Khomeini and came in response to Rushdie s 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.