Iranian Writer Urged to Rebuff Islamic Totalitarianism

PanARMENIAN.Net - Charlie Hebdo French newspaper, which is one of the editions, which printed Prophet Muhammad's cartoons, has published a statement of a group of writers, journalists and intellectuals, who urge to promote development of liberty and secular values. Writer Salman Rushidi, who was sentenced to death in Iran for Satan Poems novel and now lives in the UK, is one the 12 persons, who signed the manifest. The list of the signers also includes Dutch MP Ayaan Hirschi Ali, who worked as script writer with film director Theo Van Gogh, French philosopher Bernard-Henry Levi and a number of other figures of science and culture.