"I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses book which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death."
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini FATWA issued February, 1989 against Salman Rushdie
The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? ~Jeremy Bentham
