“[The Salman Rushdie fatwa] turned out to be the shot across the bow, the first time…that we saw the Muslim world…demand that the West start applying Islamic law on blasphemy to Western citizens within its borders…This was the first real, concerted effort to get the West to adopt these blasphemy laws,” says Nina Shea, co-author of Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide.