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What work of Sir Salman Rushdie enraged many Muslims?

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Parts of his allegorical novel The Satanic Verses (1988) were deemed sacrilegious and enraged many Muslims, including Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini , who in 1989 issued a fatwa sentencing Rushdie to death.

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