"'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.'"

After winning the 1981 Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, brought with it major controversy, due in part to the way in which Muhammad was depicted. In 1989, Rushdie was put under British police protection after a fatwa was declared on him by then-Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

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