Sir Salman is considered a controversial figure in India where his 1988 book The Satanic Verses remains banned.
The UK-based author is considered a controversial figure in India - where his 1988 book The Satanic Verses remains banned.
" Salman Rushdie is a novelist whose works include "Midnight's Children, " which won the Booker Prize, and "The Satanic Verses.
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Separately, a number of authors attending the festival have petitioned the government to reconsider the ban on The Satanic Verses.
The 14th was also the anniversary of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa sentencing Rushdie (and his editors and publishers) to death for publishing The Satanic Verses.
The author's 1988 book The Satanic Verses remains banned in India.
He was also forced to abandon plans to address the gathering by a video link after Muslim groups protesting against his book The Satanic Verses threatened to march on the venue.
The 52-year-old courted controversy last year when he was one of four authors to read from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, whose import is banned in India, at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Joseph Anton, the pseudonym adopted by Rushdie while in hiding following the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, is a memoir of the author's experiences during the controversy over his novel The Satanic Verses.
Twenty-three years after Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's late Supreme Leader, issued a fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie to be killed for writing The Satanic Verses, some Iranians continue to do the same.
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More sobering and life-threatening were the responses to Dutch cartoons critical of the Prophet Mohammed and the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses, a novel that scandalized the Muslim world.
Incitement to hatred under the OIC definition includes artistic expression like the Danish cartoons, literary expression like Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, or Pastor Terry Jones' burning of his personally owned copy of the Qur'an.
Mr Rushdie's latest remarks come amid a rising controversy over warnings of penal action against some authors who read passages from The Satanic Verses - which is banned in India - at the festival on Friday.
Writers and painters seem to pick up the gauntlet only when pushed to the wall or when under a spotlight (why did a petition by India's writers to the government to lift the ban on The Satanic Verses come 23 years after the book was banned?).
Muslim organisations do not want the participation of authors who had read out passages from The Satanic Verses after the cancellation of Sir Salman's visit at the event last year while Hindu organisations have opposed the participation of Pakistani authors in the festival following recent tensions between India and Pakistan over cross-border violations.
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