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?

Realities Of Israeli Life

All those people who talk about Free Palestine.  Where should the Jews go? Where will the Israelis end up?