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This story reminds me of Salman Rushdie when Ayatollah Khomeini issued a Fatwa against him because of his book Satanic Verses. A fatwa is an Islamic religious decree, but it has been used as a vehicle for militant Islamic fundamentalists to declare wars and death sentences on those who displease them.
I think that it's a tragedy that an artist can be murdered over his creation and a politician can be murdered for his opinions. This is a threat to freedom and justice everywhere. What's next? Will the extremists go after journalists who criticize them?
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