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Most notably, Georges Sabbagh, director of the Near East Studies Center at UCLA, told an interviewer that Khomeini was "completely within his rights" to call for Rushdie's death. Asked if Muslims should feel they have a right to kill Rushdie, he answered, "Why not?"
Siddiqui's notoriety rests on his prompt support for the Iranian death sentence on Salman Rushdie.
The leader of Britain's Muslim Parliament, who led a vociferous campaign against author Salman Rushdie, died yesterday of a heart attack...
Kalim Siddiqui, a prominent British Muslim who backed Iran's call for the assassination of the writer Salman Rushdie...
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Kalim Siddiqui, a prominent British Muslim who backed Iran's call for the assassination of the writer Salman Rushdie...
The leader of Britain's Muslim Parliament, who led a vociferous campaign against author Salman Rushdie, died yesterday of a heart attack...
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