Confronting the roots of violence in religious discourse

Investigations are continuing into Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old American of Lebanese origin accused of repeatedly stabbing the novelist Salman Rushdie in an attack at a New York literary event. With reports suggesting Matar was motivated by a fatwa issued by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 calling for the author’s death, the attack brings to the fore important

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