While Rushdie was given security, there have been several assassination attempts made on his translators, including Hitoshi Igarashi, his Japanese translator, who was stabbed to death on 11 July 1991.ĭespite a conciliatory statement made by Iran in 1998, and Rushdie’s declaration that he would no longer live in hiding, the Iranian state news agency reported in 2006 that the fatwa would remain in place permanently, since fatwas can only be rescinded by the person who first issued them, and Khomeini had since died. The Satanic Verses sparked a culture war in Britain between those in the Muslim community who considered it blasphemous – due to a storyline in the novel rewriting of the life of the prophet Muhammad – and called for the novel to be banned, and those defending it as an expression of freedom of speech Sir Salman lived in hiding for nearly a decade after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty)
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