The Rushdie Affair

The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over issues of blasphemy and freedom of expression

1: Half a Year of Upheaval; I: The Author, The Novel, and The Edict; 2: Rushdie: A Man of The Left; 3: How Is the Book Blasphemous?; 4: Blame Rushdie for the Furor?; 5: Khomeini's Edict; 6: Why Fundamentalist Muslims Picked on Rushdie; II: Protests and Repercussions; 7: A Great Conspiracy Against Islam; 8: Muslim Responses to Khomeini; 9: Western Responses to Khomeini; 10: IRAN'S Shadow in the West; 11: Censorship and Its Costs; 12: Muslims Living in the West; 13: Concluding Thoughts