LONDON, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Indian-British author Salman Rushdie said he doesn't regret writing "The Satanic Verses," a book so controversial he had to dodge death threats for years.
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Rushdie shortly after the book was published in 1988, causing the scribe to go into hiding for nearly a decade. Some Muslims thought the book insulting to Mohammed.