Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie : What is the controversy?

Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie fourth novel, it was first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. The satanic verses novel has created a huge controversy in the Islamic community. Here you will get the information about What is the controversy? in Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.

The satanic verses novel has group of alleged Qur’anic verses which allows intercessory prayers will be made to 3 Pagan Meccan goddesses, those were Allāt, Uzza, and Manat. Story that deals with the satanic verses was based on accounts from the 1st millenium historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari.

In February 1989 a violent against the Rushdie’s novel in Pakistan, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran and a Shi’a Muslim scholar, issued a fatwa calling on all good Muslims to kill Rushdie and his publishers, or to point him out to those who can kill him if they cannot themselves.

After the Satanic Verses novel released, it creates a huge controversy in the Islamic community. Muslim scholars, leaders around the world accused the book to contain blasphemous references.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Shi’a Muslim scholar and the supreme leader of Iran at that time, issued a fatwa by calling out to all proper Muslims to murder the publishers of the book and Rushdie himself.

For January 2012 Biggest literary festival in Jaipur is with big crowds, it also had a bigger controversies, courtesy Salman Rushdie. Debate over several authors reading from his novel “The Satanic Verses”, a book banned in India, it is still raging. Finally cancelled the Salman Rushdie’s attendance to Jaipur Literacy festival. On the last day of the festival, Jan 24th 2012, Salman Rushdie will interact with people on a video link.

According to sources, Salman Rushdie said hired killer, they were on the way to Jaipur to kill me, has accused the Rajasthan government of inventing that theory to keep him away.

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