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Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen was forced out of her country as her writings were interpreted to be against Islam Salman had a fatwa issued against him by Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini He was stabbed repeatedly by an unknown assailant at a lecture at New York's Chautauqua Institution

Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born novelist, spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing He was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday