After only three months on the air, Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV station has ended the children's show Tomorrow's Pioneers. Farfour, the high-pitched Mickey Mouse look-alike star of the show, was beaten to death by an Israeli officer in the last episode. read more »
He's a world-famous author. His wife is hot. He's had a fatwah out on his life since 1989. What more could Salman Rushdie ask for? Well one culture's apostate is another's knight in shining armor. Iran and Pakistan are incensed over Queen Elizabeth's decision to confer a knighthood on Rushdie.
Rushdie was born into an Indian Muslim family from Bombay. Death threats started with the publication of the Satanic Verses in 1989 read more »
