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Artist: Salman Rushdie

Year: 1989

Date of Action: February 1989

Region: Middle East

Location: Iran

Subject: Religion

Medium: Literature

Confronting Bodies: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran

Description of Artwork: The Satanic Verses is an extremely controversial novel written by Salman Rushdie. The book is set in a modern world and begins with a terrorist bombing on a London-bound jet while inflight. Two Indian men fall to earth and are transformed into living symbols for what is good and what is evil. The book uses elements of magical realism to tell the story of the two men and their return to India.

The Incident: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was extremely offended by the book and deemed it an attack on Islam. The Teheran radio quoted Khomeini asking Muslims to execute the author and publishers of the blasphemous book. He said that carrying out this order would make these people martyrs. This statement lead to numerous violent protests and forceful action, causing many injuries and a number of deaths.

Results of Incident: Not provided yet.

Source:

Khomeini Urges Muslims to Kill Author of Novel

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+|description_of_content=''The Satanic Verses'' is an extremely controversial novel written by Salman Rushdie. The book is set in a modern world and begins with a terrorist bombing on a London-bound jet while inflight. Two Indian men fall to earth and are transformed into living symbols for what is good and what is evil. The book uses elements of magical realism to tell the story of the two men and their return to India.
+|description_of_incident=Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was extremely offended by the book and deemed it an attack on Islam. The Teheran radio quoted Khomeini asking Muslims to execute the author and publishers of the blasphemous book. He said that carrying out this order would make these people martyrs. This statement lead to numerous violent protests and forceful action, causing many injuries and a number of deaths.
-'''Dates of Action:''' 1988
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+[http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-khomeini.html Khomeini Urges Muslims to Kill Author of Novel]
-'''Location:''' India
-'''Description of Artwork:''' Salman Rushdie's novel ''The Satanic Verses'' addresses "... the foundation of Islam, Britain in the Era of Thatcherism, the Asian immigrant community and a variety of allied concerns..." (Jonathon Green, "The Encyclopedia of Censorship", pg. 269) The novel contains passages which the Islamic community claimed blasphemed Islam and the Koran.
-'''The Incident:''' The Home Ministry order came in the wake of petitions from a number of representatives of the Indian Muslim community, including former union minister Khursheed Alam Khan and several members of parliament, requesting the government not to allow the book to enter the country because parts of it were offensive to Islamic sensibilities. "A government spokesman, stressing the ban was 'not intended to cast any aspersion on the literary merit of the book,' said the step had been taken from the limited point of view of avoiding trouble and communal tension... " "... Most of the critics of the novel make no bones about the fact that they have not read the book, but only its reviews - largely favorable ones from a literary viewpoint. They also have focused their attention on comments by the noted author, historian, and columnist Khush want Singh who... had vetted the book and deemed that it contained 'several derogatory references to the Prophet and the Koran and portrayed Muhammad as a small time impostor.
-'''Results of Incident:''' The novel is still banned.
-'''Source:''' Jagdish Bhatia, "India Bans a Novel of the Sacred and Profane", Far Eastern Economic Review, Oct. 27, 1988, Pg. 50-51
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