Rushdie Wasn't the First Novelist to Suffer a Murder Attempt by Someone Who Hadn't Read The Book

Iran’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all Muslims to murder Rushdie in 1989, hadn’t read it at all.

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