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...Muslim, I think it should be banned as hate-writing and slanderous in nature."--Dhrusheed Imam '90, the president of the Harvard Islamic Society, on Salman Rushdie's novel, Satanic Verses...
European Common Market governments decided yesterday to withdraw their top diplomats from Iran to protest Ayatollah Ruhollan Khomeini's renewed order for Moslems to kill novelist Salman Rushdie. Britain went further by pulling out its entire embassy staff...
...SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie (Viking; $19.95). Charges of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad have put Rushdie's book into international headlines. But there is no harm, only relentless artistry, in this encyclopedic fiction about the explosive, often comic meetings of East and West...
...SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie; Viking; 547 pages...
...attendant free publicity, increases the audience for The Satanic Verses, so much the better. The book is both an Arabian Nights narrative enchantment and a vast rumination on history, on the clash of cultures and individuals, and on the beliefs that people cherish for comfort and salvation. Author Salman Rushdie, 41, who was born in Bombay and educated at Cambridge, shows every sign of disproving Kipling's bromide about East, West and the twain never meeting. They have met, all right, in his experience and imagination, with results that are alternately comic, poignant and explosive...