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Editorial: An attack on Rushdie — and free society

In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then the supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa that called for the killing of author Salman Rushdie for his portrayal of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses."

Tribune News Service · Aug 19, 2022

What is a fatwa? A religious studies professor explains

When news broke on August 12, 2022, that the writer Salman Rushdie had been attacked, many people immediately recalled the fatwa, or edict, calling on all Muslims to take his life, issued in 1989 by the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s Supreme Leader at the time. Khomeini accused Rushdie’s 1988…

The Conversation · Aug 17, 2022

Salman Rushdie’s attack was an assault on free speech – but not a clash of civilisations

On August 12, the author Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times on stage at a literary festival in New York state. Thankfully, he has survived, albeit sustaining what appear to be life-changing injuries.

The Conversation · Aug 15, 2022

Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat as hajj reaches apex

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Friday.

WEKU · Jul 8, 2022

Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat as hajj reaches apex

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world were raising their hands to heaven and offering prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022

Uttar Pradesh: Kamlesh Tiwari’s wife gets threat, security stepped up

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Police has stepped up the security of Kiran Tiwari – the wife of Hindu Samaj Party chief Kamlesh Tiwari, who was murdered in 2019 allegedly for his comments against Prophet Muhammad – after the family received a fresh threat letter on June 22.

The Times of India · Jul 4, 2022

Why Supreme Court’s Nupur Sharma remarks are dangerous

A warped sense of causality often derails public reasoning. The spillover of a deeply flawed cause-and-effect dyad distorts what to assume and where to conclude in other realms too. That’s the key to a number of problems with the observations made by the Supreme Court while dismissing the petition of…

Newslaundry · Jul 2, 2022

Nupur Sharma issue | Supreme Court held a mirror to Narendra Modi government: Rahul Gandhi

Congress says BJP should hang its head in shame after Supreme Court’s observations on Nupur Sharma.

The Hindu · Jul 1, 2022

Supreme Court slams Times Now, Nupur Sharma over Prophet remarks

The Supreme Court on Friday came down heavily on Times Now and asked why the TV news channel held a debate on a matter that was subjudice, Live Law reported. The court was referring to the infamous May 26 debate where now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma made derogatory comments against…

Newslaundry · Jul 1, 2022

News channels lament India’s ‘Talibanisation’ after Udaipur killing, some blame Zubair

Rahul Shivshankar would like you to believe that Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair “enabled” the gruesome killing of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur.

Newslaundry · Jun 29, 2022