Claire Chambers and Rehana Ahmed

Thirty Years of the Fatwa

by Claire Chambers and Rehana Ahmed on March 8, 2019

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In late 1988, Muslim protestors in Bolton and Bradford, two poor and ethnically divided northern hotspots, were encouraged by television reporters to burn Salman Rushdie’s allegedly blasphemous novel The Satanic Verses. Soon afterwards, on 14

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