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When British novelist Salman Rushdie received a knighthood from the Queen, it upset Muslims from Europe to the sub-continent and Asia.

Now Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamaenei has declared that the 1989 fatwa against Rushdie -- which caused him to go into hiding for over ten years -- still stands.

But not all Muslims are offended by Rushdie's knighthood; some are more offended by the reaction of Muslims.

Irshad Manji is a senior fellow with the European Foundation for Democracy and the author of The Trouble with Islam Today and creator of the new documentary, Faith Without Fear.

She joins Breakfast this morning from Washington DC.