Almost the whole of the Western world was outraged at the pronouncement of the edict of the Fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, on the author Salman Rushdie after the publication of The Satanic Verses. The entire issue was diverted from the deep insult and injury it caused to Muslims all over the world to a simplified matter of "freedom of expression". The Western media in particular had a field day in renewing its attacks on Islam and the whole fabric of Muslim society. All the latent fires of anti-Islam were rekindled, which have been i...