Freedom of expression

The other "blasphemous" intellectuals who were persecuted for being critical of Islamic fundamentalism

Before the attack on Salman Rushdie, the Egyptian Nobel Prize for Literature Naguib Mahfuz suffered a similar attack in 1994. From the activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali to the cartoonists of 'Charlie Hebdo', a handful of freethinkers have been the target of the wrath of radicalism

Several people burn Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Satanic Verses' in Bradford (United Kingdom), in 1988.Derek HudsonGETTY