Follow the Leader...

BBC reports that Rushdie and couple of other writers have issued a "warning" in a French newspaper against the violence stemming from the publishing of the infamous cartoons. One of the striking aspects of the story are the number of writers that were exiled or went into hiding for their works which I had no clue about, the list includes:

• Salman Rushdie - Indian-born British writer with fatwa issued ordering his execution for The Satanic Verses
• Taslima Nasreen - exiled Bangladeshi writer, with fatwa issued ordering her execution
• Chahla Chafiq - Iranian writer exiled in France
• Irshad Manji - Ugandan refugee and writer living in Canada
• Mehdi Mozaffari - Iranian academic exiled in Denmark
• Maryam Namazie - Iranian writer living in Britain

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