The Long Reach of the Satanic Verses

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The Satanic Verses was published more than thirty years ago, but the attack in August on Salman Rushdie, the novel’s author, is a grim reminder that the scandal surrounding it remains alive. Although Ayatollah Khomeini’s notorious 1989 fatwa, which ordered the murder of Rushdie for blasphemy, has never been rescinded, no special measures seem to […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2022/09/25/rushdies-ancient-epic/

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