Bizarre fundraising plan to pursue Rushdie 'fatwa'
Howard Lake | 29 December 1999 | News
The fatwa decreeing the murder of Salman Rushdie has been given fresh impetus by a bizarre fundraising plan reported in The Guardian. The plan “was reportedly devised by Islamic militia in the holy city of Mashhad, with backing from officials in the elite Revolutionary Guards,” according to James Meeks in the Guardian. “More than 500 Iranians have pledged to sell their kidneys to raise money for the murder of Salman Rushdie…”
Read James Meeks’ Rushdie faces bizarre new death threat from Iranian kidney sales in The Guardian.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.