Reply #18: I might respond in more detail later.

[Boojatta]

Why bring up the Khordad Foundation and the fatwa against Salman Rushdie?

The poll at the beginning of this thread refers to a book that, coincidentally, Rushdie wrote.

This didn't come from the Iranian government, it comes from an arch-conservative minority faction within the government.

When did the arch-conservatives become a minority within the Iranian government? Numerically, Stalin was in the minority in the USSR because he was just one person. Stalin was not, however, a marginalized minority.

Ask yourself if you can cherry pick any lunatic resolution (...)

Why should I ask myself that? Is Salman Rushdie's name very well-known today because of cherry-picking by opponents of the Iranian government? I get the impression that it's much more a result of publicity deliberately created by the government of Iran.