Sunday, March 25, 2007

Norway: New Salman Rushdie

Kurdish Mariwan Halabjaee wrote a book on women's position in Islam. Now he is on the run, and lives in hiding at a secret location in Norway.

"I have received death threats, and know that a certain person who lives in Norway is looking for me. I'm afraid that he he's on commission from Islamic groups to find out where I am," says the Kurdish author from Northern Iraq to bt.no.

Halabjaee received asylum in Norway in August.

In his recent book he wrote among other things that the prophet Mohamed had 19 wives, that he raped and killed people.

Source: Idag (Norwegian)