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...story thus far: British-Indian author Salman Rushdie, 41, is in hiding somewhere in England. He lives under a death threat imposed by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who charges that Rushdie's new novel, The Satanic Verses, is blasphemous and an insult to Islam. For good measure, Iranians have offered a bounty of as much as $5.2 million to Rushdie's executioner. The world is stunned by the notion that the Iranian leader would issue a death threat against a British subject who has merely written a work of phantasmagoric fiction that, to be sure, occasionally deals with Islam...
...would like to draw your attention to the publication of Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. This insidious work is an insult to Muslims, but even more, it is a cruel attack on Islam which will feed on the misunderstanding and hatred of Muslims, which already exists due largely to ignorance and the misconstruing of facts regarding Islam...
STILL, much of the show's banter is as boring and subtle as this exchange between a blitzed Senator Bedderly (Nevin Steinberg '89) and Agent Tess Tosterone: "You're drunk," she says. "And you're ugly," he retorts. And don't forget fat, an insult which finds its way into every other joke...
Charney, who was not involved with the station at the time, said she viewed the incident as careless rather than racist. She said the disk jockey should have told listeners that no insult was intended by the song. She added that "the song does have its artistic merit...
...David betrays that style, adding a shallow plot, unadmirable characters and a detached atmosphere. The Strike Zone is an insult to the fans' intelligence and devotion...