Yesterday we reported that a bonyad charitable foundation in Iran had increased its bounty on author Salman Rushdie’s head by $500,000 from $2.8 million to $3.3 million. Today comes the news that the Ayatollah that heads that charity has tied the fatwa on Rushdie to the latest episode in the Islamic world involving a film […]
A regime-affiliated religious foundation in Iran has boosted $500,000 the bounty it had offered for the killing of British author Salman Rushdie to $3.3 million from $2.8 million, after protests around the world over alleged insults to the prophet Muhammad, who is considered holy in the Islamic world. The 15 Khordad Foundation reportedly will pay […]
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