Hojjat ol-Eslam Gharavian, a lecturer at Qom seminary...
Hojjat ol-Eslam Gharavian, a lecturer at Qom seminary and a hard-line cleric said Imam Khomeyni's fatwa on Salman Rushdie still stands and every single Muslim may carry out the verdict
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Hojjat ol-Eslam Gharavian, a lecturer at Qom seminary and a hard-line cleric said Imam Khomeyni's fatwa on Salman Rushdie still stands and every single Muslim may carry out the verdict. Any Muslim killed in this way would be a martyr, he said.
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- (Sources: ISNA web site monitored by BBC, 13/02/2002)
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