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Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
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Country in West Asia
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
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Fatwa
Nonbinding legal opinion in Islamic law
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Adherents of Islam
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Salman Rushdie
Indian-British-American novelist (born 1947)
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1988 novel by Salman Rushdie
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