Twitter, FB would have raised fatwa danger: Rushdie

October 02, 2012 00:20

British author Salman Rushdie said today that if a fatwa calling for his murder over his book "The Satanic Verses" had been issued in the social networking era, it would have further endangered his life.

The writer, in Berlin to publicise his new account of the near decade he spent in hiding, said the campaign against his 1988 book had been "very efficient and very international" with just phones and fax machines.

"There was essentially no email, no text messages, no Facebook, no Twitter, no Web, and that of course slowed down the attack," he told a news conference.

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