Hon. Jean-Louis Roux: Honourable senators, you are no doubt aware, along with almost everyone else on this planet, of the fate reserved for the Indian writer Salman Rushdie by the Ayatollah Khomeini some years ago now. He was accused of having written a blasphemous novel against Islam and the Koran, titled The Satanic Verses, and was made the object of a fatwah, a death sentence, with a substantial reward offered to the person carrying out the sentence.
L'honorable Jean-Louis Roux: Honorables sénateurs, vous n'êtes pas sans connaître, comme à peu près tous les habitants de la planète, le sort réservé à l'écrivain indien Salman Rushdie, par l'ayatollah Khomeiny il y a déjà plusieurs années maintenant.