![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wole Soyinka, an African Nobel Prize winner, for his alleged support for Salman Rushdie. In Nigeria, about 300 Muslims in the north of that country demonstrated against the book and its author and called for the “death sentence” on Prof. Violent demonstrations against the book in Islamic countries, including Nigeria, followed with a number of persons killed in India and Pakistan. The United Kingdom government asked Iranian diplomats in the UK to leave.Īll members of the European Economic Community (EEC) condemned the Fatwa and broke diplomatic relations with Iran. ![]() In February, 1989, the Ayatollah issued a Fatwa, an edict pronouncing the death penalty on Salman Rushdie for blasphemy against the Muslim faith and Muslims.įollowing the Fatwa, a diplomatic backlash unfolded. The immediate reaction from the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) was to condemn the book vehemently and to ask OIC member-countries to take a number of measures, including banning of the novel, blacklisting the publishers, withdrawal and destroying of the book and an appropriate apology from the author.īritish Muslim leaders wrote to Ayatollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, asking for instructions on what they should do to the book and its author. ![]()
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