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Almost four decades after ban, The Satanic Verses is on a bookshelf, in a store

December 25, 2024 9:29 am

On August 12, 2022, Rushdie, facing an Iranian fatwa over the book, was stabbed multiple times by 24-year-old Lebanese-American Hadi Matar who was quoted as having justified the attack saying Rushdie had “attacked Islam.”

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Salman Rushdie's ‘feisty and defiant' humour remains intact, says son

August 15, 2022 12:02 pm

The New York Times reported that Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie said, “The road to recovery has begun. It will be long; the injuries are severe, but his condition is headed in the right direction.”

Prosecutor: Stab attack on Salman Rushdie was 'preplanned'

August 14, 2022 11:55 am

Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of attacking Rushdie on Friday as the author was being introduced at a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute, a nonprofit education and retreat center.

Salman Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack: agent

August 14, 2022 7:51 am

Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye, Wylie said Friday evening. He was likely to lose the injured eye.

Rushdie attack: Loud silence today echoes Parliament’s muted stand over years on Satanic Verses ban

August 14, 2022 1:31 pm

Since the Rajiv Gandhi government banned The Satanic Verses in 1988 -- the first country to do so -- Parliamentary proceedings show that the ban has been cited more to score political points than make a case for the protection of freedom of speech.

Prior to the attack, Rushdie told German magazine his life is now 'relatively normal'

August 13, 2022 6:53 pm

He noted that the fatwa, a religious edict issued in Iran in 1989 that called on Muslims around the world to kill him for blasphemy, was pronounced long ago.

'This is no way for a free society to behave': Salman Rushdie wrote to Rajiv Gandhi after ban on 'The Satanic Verses'

August 14, 2022 7:08 am

In his letter to Rajiv Gandhi, Salman Rushdie had asserted that the right to freedom of expression is at the foundation of any democratic society and said "Indian democracy was becoming something of a laughing stock."

By bringing a knife to the battle of ideas, Salman Rushdie’s attacker ensures that the storyteller will continue to triumph in the land of silence

August 15, 2022 9:09 am

As Rushdie battles severe injuries and faces uncertain long-term health consequences from the attack, there is only one certainty: His words will continue to pierce the darkness.

Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet

August 13, 2022 1:49 pm

In Tehran, some willing to speak to The Associated Press offered praise for an attack targeting a writer they believe tarnished the Islamic faith with his 1988 book “The Satanic Verses.”

Thirty years on, why 'The Satanic Verses' remains so controversial

August 13, 2022 12:35 pm

The book, “Satanic Verses,” goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs when Rushdie, in dream sequences, challenges and sometimes seems to mock some of its most sensitive tenets