On Valentine's Day 1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini showed no love for this author's "Satanic Verses", giving him a death sentence
186, Salman Rushdie [PAR] These days Rushdie lives primarily in New York, where this interview was ... on 
Valentine's Day 2005, the sixteenth anniversary of the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa 
... him an apostate for writing The Satanic Verses and sentenced him to death ... 
On Valentine's Day, as he arranged himself in a padded chair, a light snow fell,... [DOC] [TLE] Salman Rushdie memoirs: The author's painful secrets about life ... [PAR] Sep 15, 2012 ... Life and love in the shadow of the fatwa: Salman Rushdie tells his painful and ... 
On Valentine's Day 1989, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC reporter 
and told that the Ayatollah Khomeini had sentenced him to death.