US - Muslims object to Rushdie invitation

The actual headline reads: "Students object to Rushdie invitation".

The report opens with this:

DAVIE, Fla. - Some students at Nova Southeastern University say the school's move to invite author Salman Rushdie to speak at graduation is an insult and they want campus officials to reconsider their choice.

Now who might they be?

"I was looking forward to my graduation, of course," said Parvez, a student leader and officer in the International Muslim Association at Nova. "Then when I found out that Salman Rushdie would be the speaker, I was appalled."

And what are they afraid of?

Besides concerns based on Rushdie's writing, students also expressed worries over safety.

"Who is to say there is not someone willing to try and kill him while inflicting harm to everyone else at the ceremony?" said NSU student Randy Rodriguez-Torres in an editorial published in this week's Nova student newspaper.

And who might that be?
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