The Fatwa's Enduring Shadow The conviction of Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie in 2022, brings little solace to a world where extremist ideologies persistently cast a long shadow.
Rushdie's attempted murder was not an isolated incident.
It was a direct consequence of the fatwa issued by Iran's then Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, calling for Rushdie's death over passages deemed blasphemous to Muslims.