Sixteen years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill writer Salman Rushdie, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard reaffirmed the death call. “The day will come when they will punish the apostate Rushdie for his scandalous acts and insults against the Koran and the Prophet. The imam’s historic fatwa, issued in the days when the infidel leaders who champion liberal democracy and Zionism devoted all their energies to fighting Islam, is testament to Muslim greatness and the revolutionary dynamism of Koranic and Islamic thought.”