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March 1989 demonstration against The Satanic Verses in the Hague.

Khaled Diab September 30, 2022October 21, 2022 1 Comment atheism, edward said, fatwa, freedom of expression, india, islam, khomeini, multiculturalism, racism, satanic verses, uk, usa

The misinterpretation of Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses

Decades after the release of The Satanic Verses and the calls for his death which followed it, Salman Rushdie remains one of the most wildly and widely misunderstood contemporary writers in the English language.

Lessons in religious intolerance

By Khaled Diab Using offensive images of Muhammad in the context of a lesson on blasphemy is entirely justifiable pedagogically,

The unlikely demonisation of Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie made a very unlikely target for the fury of conservative Muslims, which is why the opportunistic fatwa issued by a Khomeini in serious decline took the novelist and the world by surprise.