Article: Islamic wasteland. (Iran)

THE HORRIFIC death threat to Salman Rushdie will have served at least one useful purpose even if, as must be fervently hoped, it is never fulfilled: it has illustrated, better than any infidel commentary could, the barbarous character of Ayatollah Khomeini's regime. His anathema on The Satanic Verses [see the review by Aram Bakshian Jr., p. 44], a work of fiction by the Indian-born (formerly Muslim) British writer, may be having a stimulating effect on the book's sales. But, unlike Spycatcher author Peter Wright, Rushdie has to pay a high price for his best-sellerdom. Living under police guard in the shadow of the death threat, Rushdie has had to avail himself of the ...

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