Salman Rushdie: Facebook, Twitter Would Have Increased Danger

British blasphemous author Salman Rushdie has said that if the Fatwa (religious edict) issued by Imam Khomein (RA) calling for his murder over his blasphemous book “The Satanic Verses”, had been issued in the social networking era, it would have further endangered his life.

The writer, in Berlin to publicize his new account of the near decade he spent in hiding, said the campaign against his 1988 book had been “very efficient and very international” with just phones and fax machines.
“There was essentially no email, no text messages, no Facebook, no Twitter, no Web, and that of course slowed down the attack,” he told a news conference on Monday.
“When everybody can know everything instantly, it would have been possible to mobilize people against the book with much greater speed and would have been more dangerous now,” he added.
His account comes 23 years after Rushdie became the target of a Fatwa, or religious edict, issue by late founder of Islamic Republic of Iran calling for his murder for blaspheming Islam and the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in his book “The Satanic Verses”.
Source: Agencies