Muslim Cleric Calls For Salman Rushdie To Be Banned From India

The Guardian reports:

Salman Rushdie was at the centre of a row on Tuesday in his native India after an influential conservative Indian Muslim cleric said the British author and essayist should not be allowed to visit the country to speak at a prestigious literary festival.

Rushdie, 64, is scheduled to speak at the Jaipur festival, the biggest literary festival in Asia and a major fixture on the international circuit, later this month...

But on Monday a cleric from a major conservative Muslim seminary based in the town of Deoband, northern India, called on authorities to cancel Rushdie's visa because the author "had hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims in the past".

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