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|date_of_action=February 1989
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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=''The Satanic Verses'' controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was the vehement and violent reaction of Muslims to Salman Rushdie's novel. The protests against the book began with its title. The title references a legend of the Prophet Mohammad when verses were supposedly spoken to him as part of the Qur'an and then withdrawn as it was believed that the devil had sent them to deceive him into thinking they had come from God. People also took issue with the use of the name Mahound, which was said to be a derogatory term for Muhammad which was used by the English during the Crusades.  Muslims were also disturbed by the fact that Abraham was called a "bastard" for casting Hagar and Ishmael in the desert. The book was thought to be offensive, sacrilegious and blasphemous.
In 1989, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie or other individuals related in the publishing of the controversial novel. There were many attempted and achieved killings as well as violent and destructive bombings which occurred as a result of the fatwa.
|description_of_result=Because of the fatwa and the countless threats to his life, Salman Rushdie went into hiding for years. The Iranian government maintained the fatwa against Rushdie until 1998 when the succeeding government of President Mohammad Khatami said that he no longer supported the killing of Rushdie.
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[http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-khomeini.html Khomeini Urges Muslims to Kill Author of Novel]


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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy#Rushdie.27s_apology_and_reaction The Controversial Elements of The Satanic Verses]
 
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'''Artist:''' Salman Rushdie
 
'''Confronting Bodies:''' Indian Muslim Community
 
'''Dates of Action:''' 1988
 
'''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 favourable 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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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: The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was the vehement and violent reaction of Muslims to Salman Rushdie's novel. The protests against the book began with its title. The title references a legend of the Prophet Mohammad when verses were supposedly spoken to him as part of the Qur'an and then withdrawn as it was believed that the devil had sent them to deceive him into thinking they had come from God. People also took issue with the use of the name Mahound, which was said to be a derogatory term for Muhammad which was used by the English during the Crusades. Muslims were also disturbed by the fact that Abraham was called a "bastard" for casting Hagar and Ishmael in the desert. The book was thought to be offensive, sacrilegious and blasphemous. In 1989, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie or other individuals related in the publishing of the controversial novel. There were many attempted and achieved killings as well as violent and destructive bombings which occurred as a result of the fatwa.

Results of Incident: Because of the fatwa and the countless threats to his life, Salman Rushdie went into hiding for years. The Iranian government maintained the fatwa against Rushdie until 1998 when the succeeding government of President Mohammad Khatami said that he no longer supported the killing of Rushdie.

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Khomeini Urges Muslims to Kill Author of Novel

The Controversial Elements of The Satanic Verses