ラシュディ脅される

Jason Burke and Alison Flood “Cleric calls for Salman Rushdie to be barred from India” http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/10/salman-rushdie-jaipur-festival-protest
Jason Burke “Salman Rushdie pulls out of Jaipur literary festival over assassination fears” http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/20/salman-rushdie-jaipur-literary-festival


作家サルマン・ラシュディ*1は印度のJaipur Literature Festival(1月20日から24日)*2の"Inglish, Amlish, Hinglish: the Chutneyfication of English"というセッションに出る予定だったが、印度のイスラーム団体からはラシュディを印度に入れるなという声が上がっていた。


The Jaipur festival runs from 20 to 24 January and Rushdie is due to talk at a session on "Inglish, Amlish, Hinglish: the Chutneyfication of English". The vice-chancellor of the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary, Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani, told reporters in India: "Rushdie should not be allowed to visit India. If he visits India, it would be adding salt to the injuries of Muslims. He has hurt our religious sentiments."*3

Nomani was referring to Rushdie's controversial 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. Banned in India, the book prompted Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini to call for Rushdie's execution, saying that it insulted Islam, Muhammad and the Qur'an and sending Rushdie into hiding for a decade. Nomani told the Times of India that if the government did not cancel Rushdie's visa, Deoband would "write to the external affairs ministry, prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi" about the issue.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/10/salman-rushdie-jaipur-festival-protest

さらに、20日付けの記事によると、ラシュディは殺人の脅迫を受けているとして、Jaipur Literature Festivalへの出席をキャンセルした。脅迫を行っているのはムンバイの黒社会であるという。また印度当局はムンバイ黒社会のボスDawood Ibrahim一派の動向を警戒している。Dawood Ibrahimはパキスタン治安当局と密接に繋がっているという。