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On 14 February 1989—Valentine's Day, and also the day of his close friend Bruce Chatwin's funeral—a fatwā ordering Rushdie's execution was proclaimed on Radio Tehran by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme leader of Iran at the time, calling the book "blasphemous against Islam". [3]
Hitoshi Igarashi, Rushdie's Japanese translator, was found by a cleaning lady, stabbed to death 13 July 1991 on the college campus where he taught near Tokyo.[1]
Ten days prior to Igarashi's killing Rushdie's Italian translator Ettore Capriolo was seriously injured by an attacker at his home in Milan by being stabbed multiple times on 3 July 1991.[1]
William Nygaard, the Norwegian publisher of The Satanic Verses, was critically injured by being shot three times in the back by an assailant on October 11, 1993 in Oslo. Nygaard survived, but spent months in the hospital recovering.[2]
The book's Turkish translator Aziz Nesin was the intended target of a mob of arsonists who set fire to the Madimak Hotel after Friday prayers on 2 July 1993 in Sivas, Turkey, killing 37 people, mostly Alevi scholars, poets and musicians. Nesin escaped death when the fundamentalist mob failed to recognize him early in the attack.[2]
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其著作之一 satanic verses備受爭議
引起穆斯林強烈反感 曾受死亡威脅
今日喺紐約出席一個講座時遇刺
頸部中刀 紐約方面未透露傷勢