Why the Death Edict on Salman Rushdie?

The stabbing of Salman Rushdie raises the question: Why did Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentence Salman Rushdie to death in 1989 for his novel The Satanic Verses?
Salman Rushdie Was Never Safe

The stabbing of Salman Rushdie sends a renewed message to the world
Iran is Already Nuclearized, So Why Do We Need a Deal?

It’s no longer a question of keeping the ayatollahs from developing a nuclear bomb, but of buying time to prepare for a nuclear Iran.
Biden Ushers in an Era of Nuclear Chaos and War

Unfortunately, appeasement of Iran is now a firm principle of identity politics and progressive dogma. And so, it continues and escalates.
Biden Administration and Iran Empowering Rushdie’s Attackers

“Whenever they (Islamists) disagree with a woman, they accuse her of treason, threaten her with rape and torture, and bully her family.”
Iran’s Proxy War Against Israel Caused by Biden’s Weakness – Analysis

At this point, one has to ask if the Biden administration is negotiating with Iran and offering it billions of dollars simply not to attack Israel until President Joe Biden’s term is over.
The Satanic Stabbing of Salman Rushdie and the Dangerous Iran Deal

President Biden should consider the assault to be a metaphor for the dangers inherent in the West’s falling prey to the deadly machine that emboldened the terrorist from New Jersey. But he didn’t even dare to mention the “fatwa”—or terrorism—in his public statement.
Why is Biden Seeking to Pay for More Iranian Terrorism?

We didn’t need the Salman Rushdie attack to be reminded that Tehran inspires and subsidizes terror. The question now is what will Congress do to stop a new and weaker nuclear deal?
With al-Zawahiri’s assassination, it’s Groundhog Day for America (Again)

The United States has now returned to the point at which it all started: the axis between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda that led to 9/11 and put troops into Afghanistan in the first place.
Iran threatens to turn NYC into a “heap of rubble from Hell”

The narrator claims that Iran can “in the blink of an eye transform Iran’s peaceful nuclear program into an atomic military program and make the nightmare of Israel and the West come true.”