Salman Rushdie talks new book, 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder' 

Long live salman rushdie no religion is above criticism...People from so called peaceful religion must understand this.

Ordered the book on amazon , it's on the way , waiting to read Salman Rushdie's horrific account on the incident. 😕

Très bon livre

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What is so controversial about Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses? Why is it banned in different countries? The Satanic Verses is controversial since it tried to mix magical realism with a description of the origins and various facets of Islam. It created a world that although fictional closely paralleled the life of Prophet Mohammed during the time he was receiving teachings from Allah. Rushdie depicted the initial doubts in Mohammed's mind about the true path. The book also depicted polytheism (with Al-lat, Mannah and Uzza being the presiding deities) that was practiced in Meccah before the advent of Al-lah. The most controversial was however the reference to the eponymous Satanic Verses. The Devil was supposed to have deceived Mohammed into thinking that those verses were uttered by Allah. This obviously is a sensitive issue bound to cause ridicule about the authenticity of the entire Quran. Add to that fact depictions of the Supreme Being, ... not abstract in the least. He saw, sitting on the bed, a man of about the same age as himself", balding, wearing glasses and "seeming to suffer from dandruff rants about too many rules introduced by religion: rules about every damn thing, if a man farts let him turn his face to the wind, a rule about which hand to use for the purpose of cleaning one's behind ... One of Rushdie's characters refers to Mohammed as “Mahound”, a conjurer, a magician and a false prophet. The book supposedly insults the wives of the Prophet by having whores use their names, yet the wives are explicitly said to be chaste and the adoption of their names by whores is to symbolise the corruption of the city then being described (perhaps symbolizing Mecca in its pre-Islamic state). There are also references to other characters part of Islamic history/mythology where the characters do something similar or entirely contrary to their namesakes according to Rushdie's whims. All the above make for a compelling potpourri for fanatics to wrap their heads around and issue fatwas or ban the book. I am reading Joseph Anton by Rushdie at the moment where he talks about the thought process that went into creating the various segments of his novels. The fact that most rankled him about The Satanic Verses conspiracy was that people said that he did it on purpose. ... He did it for money. He did it for fame. The Jews made him do it. Nobody would have bought his unreadable book if he hadn't vilified Islam. That was the nature of the attack, and so, for so many years, The Satanic Verses was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier; an insult. There was something surreally comical about the metamorphosis of a novel about angelic and satanic metamorphosis into a devil version off itself. Throughout his memoir Rushdie tries to reason that he did not mean to stir up the storm that was created by his book : ... the book about migration and transformation that he had written was vanishing and being replaced by one that scarcely existed, in which Rushdie refers to the Prophet and his companions as 'scums and bums' (he didn't, but he did allow those characters who persecuted the followers of his fictional Prophet to use abusive language), Rushdie calls the wives of the Prophet whores (he hadn't, though whores in a brothel in his imaginary Jahilia take on the name of the Prophet's wives to arouse their clients; the wives themselves are clearly described as living chastely in the harem), Rushdie uses the word 'fuck' too many times (well, OK, he did use it a fair bit). Rushdie also thought that his book showed the Prophet in a positive light, contrary to the allegations And the material derived from the Prophet's life was, he thought , essentially admiring of the Prophet of Islam and even respectful towards him. It treated him as he always wanted to be treated, as a man ('the Messenger'), not as a divine figure (like the Christian 'Son of God'). It showed him as a man of his time, shaped by that time, and, as a leader, both subject to temptation and capable of overcoming it. [...] His prophet flirted with compromise, then rejected it; and his unbending idea grew strong enough to bend history to its will. Rushdie attributes most of his knowledge about the Prophet's life to a course he did in Cambridge, 'Muhammad, the Rise of Islam and the Caliphate'. About the Verses in question he has this to say . ... most of the major collections of Hadith, or tradition, about the life of the Prophet - those compiled by Iban Ishaq, Waqidi, [...], - told the story of an incident that afterwords become known as the incident of the satanic verses. The Prophet came down from the mountain one day and recited the sura (number 53) called an-Najm, the Star. It contained those words, 'Have you heard of al-Lat, and al-Uzza and al-Manat, the third, and the other one? They are the exalted birds and their intercession is to be greatly desired.' At a later point - was it days later? Or weeks? Or months? - he returned to the mountain and came down , abashed, to state that he had been deceived on his previous visit; the Devil had appeared to him in the guise of the archangel, and the verses he had been given were therefore not divine, but satanic, and should be expunged from the Quran at once. On reading all about the Prophet, Rushdie thought: Good story, he thought when he read about it. Even then he was dreaming o be a writer, and he filled the good story away in the back of his mind for future consideration. Twenty years later he would find out exactly how good a story it was.

Same time he also pubicity's of his up comin book...its. about money