1947. Salman Rushdi was born

70 years ago, June 19, 1947, Salman Rushdi, an English writer of Indian descent, was born. In 1989, the leader of the Iranian Revolution Ayatollah Khomeini for the "blasphemous" novel "Satanic poems" sentenced Rushdi to death and called on the Muslims of the world to fulfill the verdict. The initial reward for the murder of Rushdi in the amount of $ 2 million later increased to 2.5 million and 3.3 million. The writer is forced to hide, appearing in public only episodically.