From: dahoov2@cox.net   
      
   Well, I guess he's not too worried about it!  Let's just pray they   
   don't try something during this event!  Wouldn't that be something?   
   Near yards from the White House?!   
      
   On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:45:18 -0700, "Rick Cooper"   
    wrote:   
      
   >"Sue H"  wrote in message   
   >news:qffe84p6r19obsmdikjev80uifuh6urvam@4ax.com...   
   >  I don't know if they   
   >> are trying to kill him anymore   
   >   
   >In early 2005, Khomeini's fatwa was reaffirmed by Iran's spiritual leader,   
   >Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message to Muslim pilgrims making the annual   
   >pilgrimage to Mecca.  Additionally, the Revolutionary Guards have declared   
   >that the death sentence on him is still valid.  Iran has rejected requests   
   >to withdraw the fatwa on the basis that only the person who issued it may   
   >withdraw it, and the person who issued it is dead.   
   >   
   >Salman Rushdie has reported that he still receives a "sort of Valentine's   
   >card" from Iran each year on February 14 letting him know the country has   
   >not forgotten the vow to kill him.   
   >   
   >During the 2006 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Hezbollah   
   >leader Hassan Nasrallah declared that "If there had been a Muslim to carry   
   >out Imam Khomeini's fatwa against the renegade Salman Rushdie, this rabble   
   >who insult our Prophet Mohammed in Denmark, Norway and France would not have   
   >dared to do so. I am sure there are millions of Muslims who are ready to   
   >give their lives to defend our prophet's honour and we have to be ready to   
   >do anything for that.   
   >   
   >In response to his knighthood, many nations with Muslim majorities   
   >protested. Parliamentarians of several of these countries condemned the   
   >action, and Iran and Pakistan called in their British envoys to protest   
   >formally. Mass demonstrations against Rushdie's knighthood took place in   
   >Pakistan and Malaysia. Several called publicly for his death.   
   >   
   >According to a July 2007 report by the BBC, Al-Qaeda have also condemned the   
   >Rushdie honour. The Al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri is quoted as saying in   
   >an audio recording that Britain's award for Indian-born Rushdie was "an   
   >insult to Islam", and it was planning "a very precise response."   
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