Prominent Muslim celebrity journalists have also not said it in as many words that 'blasphemy' of divine figures of Islam should not be punished by death.
Pakistani movie International Gorillay in 1990 had portrayed Salman Rushdie as conspiring against Islam, and showed his killing by flying books with rays
A spokesperson of the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah said that the group had no additional information on the stabbing of Salman Rushdie.