![]() ![]() In a move to gain even more clout in the Muslim world through the use of fear tactics and violence, Khomeini called for the murder of Rushdie and a worldwide protest against The Satanic Verses.īookshops carrying work considered blasphemous, like The Satanic Verses, were bombed. ![]() So what was so different about The Satanic Verses?īasically, the writer and his publishers had underestimated the rising power of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian religious leader who led the Islamic Revolution in 1979. ![]() His controversial views had always earned Rushdie his fair share of critics, but never before had his safety been threatened. Yet Rushdie’s two previous books, Midnight’s Children and Shame, had also challenged culture and religion. Neither Rushdie nor his publisher, Penguin Books, could have anticipated the fatwa – the decree from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeni requiring Rushdie’s execution – and the negative consequences it would bring. In his book, Rushdie depicts Muhammed being tricked by the devil. While he knew it would upset some of the world’s Muslim population, he had no way of predicting how the outcry against his book would escalate and how it would affect censorship worldwide. ![]() In 1988, British-Indian author Salman Rushdie released his book, The Satanic Verses. ![]()
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