[Ftuuky]

IIRC Salman Rushdie has been followed by a bodyguard for decades now due to his controversial book "Satanic Verses" (1988) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy

[everybodyknows]

A sad irony: Rushdie recently recited a short story (by a different author) describing a successful assassination plot --

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/salman-rushdie-rea...

[hammyhavoc]

Yes, Iran issued a fatwa on him. Of all the places, I learned the most about it from Curb Your Enthusiasm, weirdly.