On Valentine's Day 1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini showed no love for this author's "Satanic Verses", giving him a death sentence
[DOC] [TLE] Looking back at Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses | Books | The ... [PAR] Sep 14, 2012 ... On Valentine's Day 1989, the dying Ayatollah Khomeini launched the mother of ... 
a summons against the author of The Satanic Verses to attend, at the Old Bailey, 
.... As for Rushdie himself, his armed guard shunted him around daily ... a death 
sentence on a law-abiding British citizen was not something to... [DOC] [TLE] The Satanic Verses controversy - Wikipedia [PAR] The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was the 
heated and ..... On 14 February, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme 
Leader of Iran and ... Khomeini did not give a legal reasoning for his judgement.