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One of his previous novels, Satanic Verses, has been banned in a number of countries and led to a bounty being placed on the author’s head.

The Taliban marked the first anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan with a national holiday Monday, following a turbulent year that saw women's rights crushed and a humanitarian crisis worsen. Exactly a year ago, the hardline Taliban captured Kabul after their nationwide lightning offensive against government forces ended…

His book was banned in 45 Islamic countries, with hundreds of British Muslims endorsing the death sentence

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban marked the first anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan with a national holiday Monday, following a turbulent year that saw women's rights crushed and a humanitarian crisis worsen.

This isn’t a resurgence of violent Islamism. No, it’s just another screwed-up young American man, the figure of our age.

Since 1947, India and Pakistan have shared profound affinities across ferociously policed borders, say Indian novelist Pankaj Mishra and Pakistani writer Ali Sethi

The Chautauqua Institution, southwest of Buffalo in New York State, is known for its summer lectures – and as a place where people come seeking peace and serenity. Salman Rushdie, the great writer and influential public intellectual, had spoken at the centre before.

“It seems to me that we now have a situation in India in which any two or three religious people can get their will just by saying so!”

The Tory leadership contender said there may be a case for proscribing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked this week. He has been the subject of death threats since his book The Satanic Verses was published in 1988.

In Afghanistan, a whisper network of teachers, parents and community leaders is funnelling girls to secret schools, defying the rule of the Taliban.