JAIPUR, India, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Indian Muslims want the Jaipur Literary Festival to withdraw an invitation to Salman Rushdie, a writer who has angered many fellow Muslims.
The vice chancellor of Darul Uloom seminary in Deoband, India, said many Muslims have been "hurt" by Rushdie's novel, "The Satanic Verses," The Daily Telegraph of London reported. Rushdie spent several years in hiding after the novel was published in 1988 because the Ayatollah Khomeini, then the leader of Iran, pronounced a fatwa calling for his death.