![]() ![]() ![]() Then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov-Joseph Anton. He thought of writers he loved and various combinations of their names. Rushdie was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran.” ![]() It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. ![]()
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