The author should have the guts to blame fundamentalist Islam not others for not protecting Rushdie around the clock for 33 years.

In their reaction and death threats, followed by an actual attempt on Rushdie's life. The mad mullahs may have proved Rushdie's Satanic suppositions for him?

'We are all Rushdie now'

You've got to be kidding me.
Smells like PR, not journalism.

We need a rating system, so others can help me decide whether or not it's even worth my time...
- Hard pass this time Binoy, not even gunna bother reading.

Long ago I started reading the "Satanic Verses" to see what the sensation was about, then about halfway I quit, deciding that it was not worth suffering any longer only because I paid for the book.

Today I would have quit reading much earlier.

The book is disgusting, tasteless, gross, filthy garbage.

Sadly Khomeini made me buy it and fill the pockets of that unworthy author.

I have more pity for a dog being run over by a car.

The book is disgusting, tasteless, gross, filthy garbage.
Yuyutsu,
I don't know anything about this book other than it upset Muslims. Could you just give a couple of those examples you didn't approve of ?

There was a time when Christians, Muslims could be put to the sword for disputing theological teaching. Teaching based solely on unprovable faith based evocation and brain washed into devotees from birth by Christian cults.

6 million Muslims were put to the sword as heretics, by blood-soaked Bishops at the head of crusading "Christian" armies.

A cult is described as led by a leader who cannot err!

Now as we discover truth, many of those beliefs have been jettisoned by the provable facts.

One of which is, a God of love does not need fear a punishment to hold onto devotees. And this God is everywhere present and all powerful and doesn't reside in some building or has some self elected Church official speak for him/her or know his/her mind!

And when such officials get murderously mad when their indoctrinations are challenged, they prove they're following a false God? And belong to a cult?

Should I be stabbed to death for expressing a contrary opinion and given Satan is a real and incredibly cunning and evil entity, could he/it not pose as a God needing fear to hold devotees? Well?

I know that this evil is real and terrifying beyond description, as someone who died and returned as a witness!
Alan B.