16 Facts About Rushdie Affair

Satanic Verses controversy, known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.

Rushdie Affair saw his role as a writer "as including the function of antagonist to the state".

Positions Rushdie Affair took as a committed leftist prior to the publication of his book were the source of some controversy.

Rushdie Affair defended many of those who would later attack him during the controversy.

Rushdie Affair forcefully denounced the Shah's government and supported the Islamic Revolution of Iran, at least in its early stages.

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Rushdie Affair condemned the US bombing raid on Tripoli in 1986 but found himself threatened by Libya's leader Muammar al-Gaddafi three years later.

Rushdie Affair wrote a book bitterly critical of US foreign policy in general and its war in Nicaragua in particular, for example calling the United States government, "the bandit posing as sheriff".

Later, Rushdie Affair would reflect upon the time that the book was about to be published.

Rushdie Affair is a mercy for those among you who believe.

In 2007, Salman Rushdie Affair reported that he still receives a "sort of Valentine's card" from Iran each year on 14 February letting him know the country has not forgotten the vow to kill him.

Rushdie Affair was quoted saying, "It's reached the point where it's a piece of rhetoric rather than a real threat".

Rushdie Affair suffered four wounds to the stomach area of his abdomen, three wounds to the right side of the front part of his neck, one wound to his right eye, one wound to his chest and one wound to his right thigh.

Independent newspaper worried that Muslim book burning demonstrations were "following the example of the Inquisition and Hitler's National Socialists", and that if Rushdie Affair was killed, "it would be the first burning of a heretic in Europe in two centuries".

Rushdie Affair held that Rushdie must have been aware of the response his book would evoke: "The author, a well-versed analyst of Moslem beliefs, must have anticipated a horrified reaction throughout the Islamic world".

Rushdie Affair saw a need to be "sensitive to the concern and anger" of Muslims and thought severing diplomatic relations with Iran would be an "overreaction".

Rushdie Affair was supported by major bodies in the literary world such as PEN and Association of American Publishers, and prominent figures such as Gunter Grass, Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer and Derek Walcott.