Muslims groups threaten to target Jaipur Literature Festival over Sir Salman Rushdie

Last year Muslims terrorized the Jaipur Literature Festival into canceling Salman Rushdie's appearance.  This year they are trying to stop several people who filled in for Rushdie from appearing this year.  So far the organizers are resisting the terrorist's threats, but then they tried to resist last year.  So time will tell.  Giving in to Muslim terrorists only gets more terrorism.

FROM NYDAILYNEWS.COM:

Muslims groups threaten to target Jaipur Literature Festival over Sir Salman Rushdie

Controversy emerged before the start of the Jaipur Literature Festival as Muslim groups threatened to target the festival unless it withdrew invitations to writers who supported Sir Salman Rushdie at last year's event. Sir Salman was forced to withdraw from the festival last year after police said they had received intelligence reports of a plot by Islamic fundamentalists to assassinate him.

Tuesday Jan 22, 2013

Muslim groups in India are threatening to target the Jaipur Literature Festival later this week unless it withdraws invitations to writers who supported Sir Salman Rushdie at last year's event.

Sir Salman was forced to withdraw from the festival last year after police said they had received intelligence reports of a plot by Islamic fundamentalists to assassinate him for 'heresies' in his controversial novel 'The Satanic Verses'.

The author, who is expected to visit India this week for the film premier of his Booker-winning novel 'Midnight's Children', later accused the Indian government of cowardice in giving in to extremist threats but also claimed Congress leaders had circulated a false threat to maximize the party's Muslim vote during last year's Uttar Pradesh state elections.

Muslim clerics have now warned of new protests if invitations to four authors – Hari Kunzru, Ruchir Joshi, Amitava Kumar and Jeet Thayil – who read from 'The Satanic Verses' in support of Sir Salman at last year's festival are not withdrawn.

Sir Salman had been due to join leading authors Annie Proulx, Ben Okri, and David Hare at the festival, but a campaign against his appearance built after the leading Islamic seminary, the Daul Uloom in Deoband, issued a fatwa demanding the government to ban him. 'The Satanic Verses' provoked outrage throughout the Islamic world following its publication in 1988 over its narrator's claim that disputed verses on the Koran had been revealed by the Archangel Gabriel.

The author was forced to go into hiding after Ayatollah Khomeini called for him to be killed.

Festival organizer Sanjoy Roy said the threat had come from fringe groups seeking publicity and would be ignored. "If they want to protest, they should, and we'll continue with what we want to do," he said.