1. Rushdie - Noun
2. Rushdie - Proper noun
British writer of novels who was born in India; one of his novels is regarded as blasphemous by Muslims and a fatwa was issued condemning him to death (born in 1947)
Source: WordNetAfter the attack, Al-Qaeda called for more killings. citation Rushdie expressed his support for Charlie Hebdo. Source: Internet
A previously unknown Lebanese group, the Organization of the Mujahidin of Islam, said he died preparing an attack "on the apostate Rushdie". Source: Internet
He defended Salman Rushdie after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned Rushdie to death in 1989, but also criticized his The Satanic Verses as "insulting" to Islam. Source: Internet
Bernard Lewis's comment on Rushdie fatwa in The Crisis of Islam (2003), Bernard Lewis, pp. 141–142 Though Rushdie publicly regretted "the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam", citation the fatwa was not revoked. Source: Internet
Alan Lightman's first novel, "Einstein's Dreams, " became an international best seller and was hailed by Salman Rushdie as "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written." Source: Internet
He has stated that while there was a "case to be made for the removal of Saddam Hussein ", US unilateral military intervention was unjustifiable. citation Paul Auster and Rushdie greeting Israeli President Shimon Peres with Caro Llewelyn in 2008. Source: Internet