Author skips literary festival due to death threats from . . .

Care to guess? Was it all those radical Christians out there issuing kill-on-sight orders?

This headline from CNN seems to be missing something:

'Satanic Verses' author pulls out of literary festival over death threats

Hmm. What could it be? Let's find out the source of the threats:

British author Salman Rushdie on Friday canceled his appearance at the Jaipur literary festival in India following warnings of threats to his life.

"I have now been informed by intelligence sources in Maharashtra and Rajasthan that paid assassins from the Mumbai underworld may be on their way to Jaipur to 'eliminate' me," Rushdie said in a statement. ...

The writer rose to international notoriety with his 1980s novel, "The Satanic Verses," which stirred protests throughout the Muslim world. Rushdie lived under protection in Britain for nearly 10 years after a fatwa, a death sentence, was issued against him by Iran's then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.Khomeini considered lines in the book as blasphemous against Islam.

Aah. It's just another threat from radical Islamists.

Nevermind.

Nothing to see here.

Move along.

UPDATE: CNN has now updated and changed its headline and story.