> It's not a good look to start your article on how speech is not violence with a concrete example of someone using speech as violence. > The supreme leader of

> It's not a good look to start your article on how speech is not violence with a concrete example of someone using speech as violence. > The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had issued a fatwā calling on “all valiant Muslims wherever they may be in the world” to kill the writer without delay, for which the assassin would receive a bounty of $1 million. This is called "putting a hit out" on someone.