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NEWS ABOUT: Satanic Verses

Satanic Verses stories: 4 news summaries

Ian McEwan: I Sheltered Rushdie After 1989 Fatwa

Novelist reveals how he protected his friend

Feb 16, 09 7:55 AM CST
(Newser) - Twenty years after the Iranian leadership declared a death sentence on Salman Rushdie, fellow novelist Ian McEwan reveals that he sheltered the writer in a house in the English countryside. In a long profile of McEwan in the New Yorker, the novelist describes how the pair listened to news of... More »

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literature • Salman Rushdie • Satanic Verses • fatwa • Islamic extremism • English literature • Ian McEwan

OPINION

Fatwa Against Rushdie Set Off Self-Censorship

Edict brought Muslim
culture war to the
West: Hitchens

Jan 5, 09 4:27 PM CST
(Newser) - When Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens knew what it meant: "This was not just a warning of what was to come,” he writes in Vanity Fair, “it was the warning.” A global culture war, between Muslim fundamentalists and... More »

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Iran • Islam • Christopher Hitchens • censorship • religion • Salman Rushdie • Satanic Verses • fundamentalism • fatwa • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Danish Mohammed cartoons • culture wars

That's Sir Salman Rushdie

Pshaw Iran, Queen Elizabeth knights the controversial author in a 'private moment'

Jun 25, 08 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Queen Elizabeth officially knighted Salman Rushdie today, the AP reports, a year after the award was announced to widespread Muslim protest. “I have no regrets about any of my work,” said Rushdie, when asked about his novel The Satanic Verses, for which the Shah of Iran awarded... More »

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Queen Elizabeth II • literature • Salman Rushdie • Satanic Verses • knighthood

Rushdie Honor Sparks Furor

Novelist's knighthood prompts uproar from some corners of the Muslim world

Jun 18, 07 1:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan wants Britain to revoke Salman Rushdie's just-granted knighthood—and the UK should prepare for suicide attacks if it doesn't, a Pakistani cabinet minister said today. "If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so unless the British government apologizes and withdraws the... More »

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Iran • Pakistan • Queen Elizabeth II • fatwas • Salman Rushdie • Satanic Verses • suicide bombing • knighthood • protests • Britain

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