Hugo Bettauer, who was born Jewish, was attacked by Otto Rothstock, a 20-year-old dental technician who had imbibed all the antisemitic propaganda of the age.
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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