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Countries that banned the book The Satanic Verses in 1988-89

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Today someone tried to assassinate Salman Rushdie in NY. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy The Fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini on 14 February 1989: We are from Allah and to Allah we shall return. I am informing all brave Muslims of the world that the author of The Satanic Verses, a text written, edited, and published against Islam, the Prophet of Islam, and the Qur'an, along with all the editors and publishers aware of its contents, are condemned to death. I call on all valiant Muslims wherever they may be in the world to kill them without delay, so that no one will dare insult the sacred beliefs of Muslims henceforth. And whoever is killed in this cause will be a martyr, Allah Willing. Meanwhile, if someone has access to the author of the book but is incapable of carrying out the execution, he should inform the people so that [Rushdie] is punished for his actions.— Rouhollah al-Mousavi al-Khomeini. * * *  You can kill people, but the idea of freedom is immortal.

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Life damages the living.

Satanic verses, Salman Rushdie

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The Satanic Verses

Trying to read Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" again. I've bounced on it the last few times, but I think I might finally be at an age and be reading at the cadence the book demands.

It's like, hm, if I described it in terms of visual media, it's at the cadence of the wonder years with the ephemerality of American Beauty.

Honestly if it weren't for that fatwa I don't know that I would have given it this many shots. I'm compelled to figure out what the heck was so darn blasphemous in this book.

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Fictions were walking around wherever he went, Gibreel reflected, fictions masquerading as real human beings.

The Satanic verses by Salman Rushdie 1988

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Salman Rushdie | The Satanic Verses | 1988

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Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck

Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck

Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses, has been stabbed on stage in New York state. The Booker Prize winner, 75, was speaking at an event at the Chautauqua Institution at the time. New York State Police said a man ran up onto the stage and attacked Mr. Rushdie, who is now…

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12 Classic and Modern Books that have been Banned throughout History

12 Classic and Modern Books that have been Banned throughout History

Throughout our long history, there have been various books that have been banned and even burned by angry mobs over the centuries – some for religious reasons, some for political motives, and some for cultural agendas.  As decades have passed and generations changed, the bans have mostly been lifted.  But some bans remain or are returning, even in our “modern” times.  Here then are 12 of the top…

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A Climate of Fear

The free speech skeptics abandon Salman Rushdie

by Russell Jacoby

Salman Rushdie’s 2012 memoir, Joseph Anton, closes as its author emerges in 2002 from years in hiding; he bids goodbye to members of the security detail that has guarded him since Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa called for his death. “That was it,” Rushdie writes. “More than thirteen years after the police walked into his life, they spun on their heels and walked out of it.” Still, he wonders whether “the battle over The Satanic Verses” has ended in “victory or defeat.”

This may seem a strange question. Rushdie’s novel had not been suppressed; in fact, its literary and political significance was widely recognized, and its author was alive and well. Both Rushdie and those charged with his protection believed that the threat against him had abated enough for him to return to public life. Yet Rushdie ends his memoir on a note of concern: he writes that the “climate of fear” had intensified since the fatwa was issued, making it “harder for books like his to be published, or even, perhaps, to be written.”

As it happens, he had cause to worry. In the intervening years, support for Rushdie and for free expression has narrowed—a fact made particularly clear since his August 2022 stabbing by an American of Lebanese descent who expressed admiration for Khomeini and condemned Rushdie after reading “a couple pages” of The Satanic Verses. The assault, which put Rushdie in intensive care and left him blind in one eye, would have been unimaginable without the fatwa, yet many have been content to treat it as a random act of violence by a lone madman.

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Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and torso on stage at a lecture in New York State by Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old man in August 2022. He lost on eye and movement in his hand after a lengthy medical treatment.

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Khalid the water-carrier hangs back and the hollow-eyed Prophet waits for him to speak. Awkwardly, he says: "Messenger, I doubted you. But you were wiser than we knew. First we said, Mahound will never compromise, and you compromised. Then we said, Mahound has betrayed us, but you were bringing us a deeper truth. You brought us the Devil himself, so that we could witness the workings of the Evil One, and his overthrow by the Right. You have enriched our faith. I am sorry for what I thought."

Mahound moves away from the sunlight falling through the window. "Yes." Bitterness, cynicism. "It was a wonderful thing I did. Deeper truth. Bringing you the Devil. Yes, that sounds like me."

Meanwhile:

Gibreel, hovering-watching from his highest camera angle, knows one small detail, just one tiny thing that’s a bit of a problem here, namely that it was me both times, baba, me first and second also me.

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Great Openings in Literature #2: The Satanic Verses

‘To be born again,’ sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, ‘first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won’t cry? How to win the darling’s love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again …’ Just before dawn one winter’s morning, New Year’s Day or thereabouts, two real, full-grown, living men fell from a great height, twenty-nine thousand and two feet, towards the English Channel, without benefit of parachutes or wings, out of a clear sky.

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Gujarati: કોઈપણ દેશમાં સલમાન રુસ્ડીના પુસ્તક સેટેનિક વર્સીસ પર પ્રતિબંધ મુકાયો હોય તે નાબૂદ કરવો જોઈએ

Gujarati: કોઈપણ દેશમાં સલમાન રુસ્ડીના પુસ્તક સેટેનિક વર્સીસ પર પ્રતિબંધ મુકાયો હોય તે નાબૂદ કરવો જોઈએ

ઇતિહાસમાં પ્રગતિ અનેકવાર કલમ ​​સાથે જોડાયેલી હોય છે. પરંતુ લેખકોને  વારંવાર ભયંકર પડકારોનો સામનો કરવો પડતો હોય છે. 1600 ના દાયકામાં ગેલિલિયો ને મોત ની સજા ફરમાવવામાં આવી હોત અને તેના પર પાખંડનો આરોપ મૂકવામાં આવ્યો હતો. ચર્ચ દ્વારા તેના લખાણ ઉપર પ્રતિબંધ મૂકવામાં આવ્યો હતો કારણ કે તેણે કહ્યું કે પૃથ્વી સૂર્યની આસપાસ ફરે છે અને તે ચર્ચને માન્ય નહોતું. સન1958 માં, અલાબામામાં, બાળકોના પુસ્તક,…

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