Iran increases price on Rushdie's head by $500K
So if they had only killed Rushdie back in 1989, the latest movie would have never been made. Those cartoons wouldn't have been drawn, either...sometimes words fail even me...
Iran increases price on 'Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie's head by $500K
By NBC News wire services
DUBAI -- An Iranian religious foundation has increased its reward for the killing of British author Salman Rushdie, in response to a a U.S.-made film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad, sparking protests across the Muslim world.
Rushdie, an Indian-born British novelist who has nothing to do with the film, was condemned to death in 1989 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's late leader, over his novel "The Satanic Verses," saying its depiction of the Prophet Muhammad was blasphemous...
"I am adding another $500,000 to the reward for killing Salman Rushdie, and anyone who carries out this sentence will receive the whole amount immediately," said Hassan Sanei, the foundation's head, in a statement carried by the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).
The reward offered by the state-linked foundation now stands at $3.3 million, ISNA reported.
"Surely if the sentence of the Imam (Khomeini) had been carried out, the later insults in the form of caricatures, articles and the making of movies would not have occurred," said Sanei, who is also the foundation's representative to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khomeini's successor as Iran's supreme leader.
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How does that compare in importance to oh, say, a tiff between nonbelievers?
*I used the Google to look for similar actions in our community, and the closest hit I find is a reward offered for the return of a stolen banner, $1500.
It was quite the cause celebre at the time, around July 1, but I don't see any indication that the reward bore fruit.
Evidently they haven't been able to track down the rival atheist organization that stole it.
