Haunted by Satanic verses: The Kurdish translator of Salman ...

Date-Time, Results ... Rushdie was forced into hiding; the Japanese translator of the book was murdered; and more than 30 Turkish intellectuals burned to death when Islamist arsonists attacked a hotel in Sivas where a Turkish writer who had translated the text was attending a cultural festival. For a young Iranian hoping to thumb his nose at Iran's Islamic government, and at radical Muslims in general, translating and promoting Rushdie's novel must be among the most ...