“Imam Khomeini transformed Iranian society, which was immersed in the corrupt culture of the West, into a completely Islamic society.
That great man in the history of humanity, following the prolonged silence of the Muslim world in response to Salman Rushdie’s insult to the sanctities of Muslims, issued a religious edict (fatwa) that shocked the superpowers and all the anti-Islamic governments of the world.”
(The Setting Sun, p. 74, quoted from the News Agency Bulletin, 12 June 1989)
Maulana Nawab Baldeen Naqshbandi, one of the prominent Sunni scholars