My father used to say that instead of passing fatwa against Salman Rushdie, scholars must give him a response by writing a book & answering him. That would make for a more intelligent response.
I tried to read The Satanic Verses, but I just couldn’t as it was unreadable. Then I also tried to read some other writings of Mr. Rushdie, but all of them seemed unreadable to me. One of my friends also tried to read The Satanic Verses, but even he got a terrible headache. In my opinion, he is a very over-rated writer. He’s even worse than mediocre.
Just now I read something that I would like to share:
“As of late 2009 Rushdie has not been physically harmed, but others connected with the book have suffered violent attacks. Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese language translator of the book, was stabbed to death on 11 July 1991; Ettore Capriolo, the Italian language translator, was seriously injured in a stabbing the same month; William Nygaard, the publisher in Norway, barely survived an attempted assassination in Oslo in October 1993, and Aziz Nesin, the Turkish language translator, was the intended target in the events that led to the Sivas massacre on 2 July 1993 in Sivas, Turkey which resulted in the deaths of 37 people.”
It sounds like quite an accursed book.
