Sentence examples for death fatwa from inspiring English sources

When his most famous novel The Satanic Verses was published in 1988, Iranian clergy responded by issuing a death fatwa on him.

Mr. Houellebecq nonetheless won support from from the British writer Salman Rushdie, who lived under a death fatwa after Iranian clerics said they found blasphemy in his 1988 novel, "The Satanic Verses".

Mr. Newton is not P.C. "The only word I had to remove was 'fatwa,' " he said, referring to the term for a decree by an Islamic religious leader, which first came to widespread Western attention when Iranian clerics issued a death fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie in 1989.

So while Pat Robertson may seem harmless, by comparison, when he issues a death fatwa on Hugo Chavez, or when he blames a hurricane or an earthquake on gay sex or a pact with the devil or something, a useful question to contemplate is whether he and his followers would be as benign (if one could describe them as such) if they could get away with worse behavior.

It was a flourishing, storytelling decade, and, like all good decades, it lasted exactly 12 years: from 1977, with Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia, to 1989, the day that a British novelist was sentenced to death by fatwa.

For instance, they have shelved the death-penalty fatwa that Khomeini served on Salman Rushdie for writing an allegedly blasphemous novel, and they have cultivated ties with Saudi Arabia, whose kingdom Khomeini detested.

The death threat, or fatwa, has disgraced Iran since it was imposed in 1989 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

He supported the 1979 peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, and in 1989 he condemned the Islamic fatwa death sentence pronounced on Anglo-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie.

Three weeks ago the government managed to soothe Britain about its intentions towards Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who in 1989 was sentenced to death in a fatwa issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini.

Three doctors are being investigated by authorities in Bangladesh after they claimed to have found no signs of injury in the postmortem examination of a teenage girl who was whipped to death under a fatwa.

WHILE European governments argue over what is to be done about Iran (answer from a ministerial meeting in Luxembourg this week: not very much), Iranians are having an argument of their own: what is to be done about Salman Rushdie?The British writer was judged a blasphemer and worthy of death, in a fatwa issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989.