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NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) A Somali scholar is stoking anger after he published a book questioning the concept of the death penalty for apostasy in Islam.
Now, he is being branded as “Somalia’s Salman Rushdie” a reference to the British–Indian novelist whose book The Satanic Verses provoked worldwide Muslims protests and a fatwa from Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989.
