Salman Rushdie asks Twitter to remove Islamophobic comments falsely attributed to him

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Falsified quote was circulated on social media

On Thursday , the British-Indian writer reshared the post, which featured a picture of Rushdie alongside a quote claiming to have come from him.

 

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