The Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, General Hosein Salami, has warned the French magazine charlie hebdo remember what happened to the writer Salman Rushdiewho was attacked more than 30 years after the publication of a novel in which he “insulted Islam”.
“I advise the French and directors of Charlie Hebdo magazine to look at what happened to Salman Rushdie,” Salamí said during a ceremony, according to the semi-official Mehr agency on Wednesday.
The British writer of Indian origin suffered a stab attack in which he lost sight in one eye in New York in August 2022 for having “attacked islam” in his novel “The Satanic Verses”, published in 1989.
iranian ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the Rushdie murder in 1989 and anyone involved in the publication of the book, forcing the writer to spend years in hiding.
Iran’s government has denied all responsibility for the attack on Rushdie in August, blaming the writer for the attack “for insulting Muslims” with his novel.
“After many years, a young Muslim man bravely took revenge on Salman Rushdie and no one could save him,” Salami said, referring to the man who attacked the writer with a knife during a conference in New York. “Don’t play with Muslims”has warned the military.
Charlie Hebdo convened on December 8 a Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei cartoon contestto “support” “the Iranians who fight for their freedom”, in reference to the protests that have shaken the country since September, after the death in police custody of Mahsa Aminifor wearing the Islamic veil incorrectly placed.
Tehran condemned the contest, saying it “in no way accepts insults against its Islamic, religious and national values.”
As a first response to the contest, Iran closed the French Research Institute in Iran on the 5th, in reaction to the “silence” in Paris about the cartoon contest.
Source: Lasexta
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