For the episode this week, Kate tackles a VERY complicated topic: Salman Rushdie’s book THE SATANIC VERSES and the controversy that surrounds it. Spoiler alert: the last section of this episode will be about an assassination attempt on Rushdie’s life that occurred in New York on August 12, 2022
Sources:
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_Verses
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses
3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Igarashi
5) https://medium.com/feedium/banned-books-list-2649e56db929
6) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/14/looking-at-salman-rushdies-satanic-verses?INTCMP=SRCH
7) https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/25/world/iran-drops-rushdie-death-threat-and-britain-renews-teheran-ties.html
8) https://books.google.com/books?id=wYkQXO4sEoAC&q=From+fatwa+to+jihad+:
9) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/apr/12/salman-rushdie-reveals-fatwa-memoir
10) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/11/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses
11) https://www.proquest.com/docview/1866754374
12) https://www.nyspnews.com/state-police-are-investigating-an-attack-on-author-salman-rushdie.htm
13)https://web.archive.org/web/20120512105406/http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2009/02/21/freedom-of-speech-wilders-orwell-and-the-%E2%80%9Ckoran-ban%E2%80%9D/