![]() ![]() Yet he says to withdraw or deny the book would have been "cowardly, craven, disgusting and shameful". It’s harder to count, he admits, those who died as a result of protests and reprisals in India and Pakistan, most of whom had never read the book. Rushdie himself can list the places that were bombed, the bookshops threatened, the publishers phoned and intimidated he knows the names of those-like his Japanese translator-who were murdered. ![]() It has been 25 years since the religious leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, declared a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his novel The Satanic Verses, and it’s impossible to count the number of people who have died as a result. Kate Evans and Michael Cathcart take a look at the lessons of the controversy a quarter of a century later. Twenty-five years since it was first published, Salman Rushdie says withdrawing The Satanic Verses in the face of the fatwa put on him would have been "cowardly, craven, disgusting and shameful". ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |