to SIR salman with love?

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Rushdie knighted in honours list

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43053000/jpg/_43053349_salman_bbc203b.jpg Sir Salman was able to return to public life in 1999 Salman Rushdie, who went into hiding under threat of death after an Iranian fatwa, has been knighted by the Queen. His book The Satanic Verses offended Muslims worldwide and a bounty was placed on his head in 1989. But since the Indian-born author returned to public life in 1999, he has not shied away from controversy. A devout secularist, he backed Commons Leader Jack Straw over comments on Muslim women and veils and has warned against Islamic "totalitarianism". The son of a successful businessman, Sir Salman was born into a Muslim family in Mumbai in 1947. He was educated in England at Rugby School and studied history at Cambridge University. Booker prize Following an advertising career in London, he became a full-time writer. I am thrilled and humbled to receive this great honour Salman Rushdie His first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975 but was generally ignored by the book-buying public and literary establishment. But his second effort - the magic realist novel Midnight's Children - catapulted him to literary fame. It won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was awarded the Booker of Bookers in 1993 after being judged the best novel to have won the prize during its 25-year history. Sir Salman, who turns 60 on 19 June, is renowned as a purveyor of story as political statement. Death sentence He takes history and fictionalises it, with imaginative brilliance, and much of his work is set in his native India and Pakistan. His fourth book - The Satanic Verses in 1988 - describes a cosmic battle between good and evil and combines fantasy, philosophy and farce. It was immediately condemned by the Islamic world because of its perceived blasphemous depiction of the Prophet Muhammad. It was banned in many countries with large Muslim communities and in 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's spiritual leader, issued a fatwa, ordering Sir Salman's execution. In 1998, the Iranian government said it would no longer support the fatwa, but some groups have said it is irrevocable. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43053000/jpg/_43053403_salmanpadma_pa203b.jpg Sir Salman and his actress wife Padma Lakshmi Despite living as a virtual prisoner, with full police protection, Sir Salman continued to write and produced several novels and essays during his confinement. His re-emergence has not been without controversy. In backing Jack Straw over his comments on Muslim women wearing veils, Sir Salman said veils "suck" as they were a symbol of the "limitation of women". He also weighed into the furore surrounding the Danish cartoons, which satirised the Prophet Muhammad, warning against Islamic "totalitarianism". Of his knighthood for services to literature, Rushdie said: "I am thrilled and humbled to receive this great honour, and am very grateful that my work has been recognised in this way."

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The publication of The Satanic Verses in September 1988 caused immediate controversy in the Islamic world because of what was perceived as an irreverent depiction of the prophet Muhammad. The title refers to a Muslim tradition that is related in the book. According to it, Muhammad (Mahound in the book) added verses (sura) to the Qur'an accepting three goddesses that used to be worshipped in Mecca as divine beings. According to the legend, Muhammad later revoked the verses, saying the devil tempted him to utter these lines to appease the Meccans (hence the Satanic verses). However, the narrator reveals to the reader that these disputed verses were actually from the mouth of the Archangel Gibreel. The book was banned in many countries with large Muslim communities.

On 14 February 1989, a fatwa requiring Rushdie's execution was proclaimed on Radio Tehran by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of Iran at the time, calling the book "blasphemous against Islam." A bounty was offered for the death of Rushdie, who was thus forced to live under police protection for years to come. On 7 March 1989, the United Kingdom and Iran broke diplomatic relations over the Rushdie controversy.

The publication of the book and the fatwa sparked violence around the world, with bookstores being firebombed. Muslim communities in several nations in the West held public rallies in which copies of the book were burned. Several people associated with translating or publishing the book were attacked, seriously injured, and even killed.[10] Many more people died in riots in Third World countries.

On 24 September 1998, as a precondition to the restoration of diplomatic relations with Britain, the Iranian government, then headed by moderate Mohammad Khatami, gave a public commitment that it would do nothing to harm Rushdie.[11] But the hardliners in Iran have continued to reaffirm the death sentence.[12] In early 2005, Khomeini's fatwa was reaffirmed by Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message to Muslim pilgrims making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.[13] Additionally, the Revolutionary Guards have declared that the death sentence on him is still valid.[14] Iran has rejected requests to withdraw the fatwa on the basis that only the person who issued it may withdraw it.[13] (The person who issued it is dead.)

Salman Rushdie reported that he still receives a "sort of Valentine's card" from Iran each year on February 14 letting him know the country has not forgotten the vow to kill him. He was also quoted saying, "It's reached the point where it's a piece of rhetoric rather than a real threat."[15] Despite the threats on Rushdie, he has publicly said that his family has never been threatened and that his mother (who lived in Pakistan during the later years of her life) even received outpourings of support.[16]

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I DO NOT AGREE

mardhiah12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses

more info abut the satanic verses

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aurora_belle

I have no problem with him being granted whtever form of "recognition" by the western world. Perhaps he did deserve the knighthood for his other literary works. But that doesnt mean I condone his backhanded way (or not) of slandering Islam due to his own lack of understanding of the religion.

I look forward to reading his famed book and find out myself what the hoo haa is all about.

dutchy

Dah pernah baca...tapi frankly speaking tak habiskan pun...bahasa BI yg dia gunakkan...byk yg Dut tk dpt memahami apa yg hendak dia sebagai seorang writer hendak luahkan

pada Dut buku ni got no literacture value at all...ianya menjadi popular kerana ada orang2 Islam
yg sendiri tak faham akan kandungan buku nie...dan selepas Fatwa yg dikeluarkan membenarkan dia dibunuh...yg membuatkan buku ni menjadi buruan dan secara tidak langsung menaikkan jumlah jualan buku ni

If I've to sectioned this book under what kind of reading, this book its more to like a flight of fantasy actually...tiada apa yg seronok..lagi seronok membaca buku2 Harry Porter atau LOTR triology   



[ Last edited by  dutchy at 21-7-2007 05:49 PM ]