The Satanic Verses: Controversy and Retribution

Send us Fan MailFor the episode this week, Kate tackles a VERY complicated topic: Salman Rushdie’s book THE SATANIC VERSES and the controversy that surrounds it. Spoiler alert: the last section of this episode will be about an assassination attempt on Rushdie’s life that occurred in New York on August 12, 2022Sources:1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_Verses2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Igarashi5) https://medium.com/feedium/banned-books-list-2649e56db9296) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/14/looking-at-salman-rushdies-satanic-verses?INTCMP=SRCH7) https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/25/world/iran-drops-rushdie-death-threat-and-britain-renews-teheran-ties.html8) https://books.google.com/books?id=wYkQXO4sEoAC&q=From+fatwa+to+jihad+:9) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/apr/12/salman-rushdie-reveals-fatwa-memoir10) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/11/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses11) https://www.proquest.com/docview/186675437412) https://www.nyspnews.com/state-police-are-investigating-an-attack-on-author-salman-rushdie.htm13)https://web.archive.org/web/20120512105406/http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2009/02/21/freedom-of-speech-wilders-orwell-and-the-%E2%80%9Ckoran-ban%E2%80%9D/Support the show