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A demonstrator carries placards denouncing Salman Rushdie's controversial novel, “The Satanic Verses,” during a protest outside the New York offices on Feb. 17, 1989 of Viking-Penguin, the American publisher of the novel. The book has outraged Muslim fundamentalists and Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini has called for the death of the book's author, a British citizen who was born into a Muslim family in India. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)