When Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on novelist Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, it was the opening shot in a war on cultural freedom. Two decades later, the violence continues, and Muslim fundamentalists have gained a new advantage: media self-censorship.
<http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/02/hitchens200902>Link --Posted By johannes to <http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/assassins-of-mind.htm>monochrom at 1/19/2009 09:18:00 AM
