Salman Rushdie fatwa - Liaqat Hussain view

Title

Salman Rushdie fatwa - Liaqat Hussain view

Genre

Interview

TX Date

14 Feb 1992

Year of production

1992

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Duration

00:00:28

Description

Interview with Liaqat Hussain, Bradford Council of Mosques, about the fatwa imposed on Satanic Verses author, Salman Rushdie. The author has appealed for the death sentence to be lifted but Hussain says the fatwa still stands. Interviewer not heard.

Contributors

Liaqat Hussain

Keywords

Books; Authors; Iran; Religion; Writers; UK; Great Britain; International relations; Censorship; Novelists; Novels; Islam; Freedom of speech; Salman Rushdie; Ruhollah Khomeini; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature; Fatwa; Bradford Council of Mosques

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