![]() ![]() " somebody's trying to kill you because of something you've said or written … you have to ask yourself if it's worth dying for." Why was it so controversial? "The history of literature is one in which writers have defended their work, and I wasn't going to be the one who didn't," he said. Then living in the UK, Rushdie, who called his novel "pretty mild", was forced to go into protective hiding for the greater part of a decade.Īt the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2014, he said it would have been "cowardly, craven, disgusting and shameful" to withdraw The Satanic Verses. ![]() ![]() In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran's supreme leader, pronounced a fatwa, or religious edict, calling upon Muslims to kill the novelist and anyone involved in the book's publication. It was banned in many countries with large Muslim populations, with some Muslims saying the novel contained blasphemous passages. ![]() Described by The Conversation as one of the most controversial books in recent literary history, The Satanic Verses, set off angry demonstrations all over the world upon publication, some of them violent. ![]()
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