What if Salman Rushdie had included lots of pornographic photos in the Satanic Verses?

[Boojatta]

Would his Islamic enemies have been afraid to admit that they had been reading it?

[Leftisalwaysright]

1. Interesting...

That's a brain teaser if I ever heard one.

[dysfunctional press]

2. i might have actually tried to read it?

nt

[yurbud]

3. No one said that loud enough when Jerry Falwell would criticize Larry Flynt...

"How DO you know what's in those magazines, Rev. Falwell?"

[EFerrari]

4. He was booked to speak to our seminar the week that stuff started.

:mad:

[DemoTex]

5. It matters not. The Imams read it and banned it. Words alone were sufficient.

Rushdie's "Islamic enemies" could not read the book. It was forbidden by the Imams. Lest there be any confusion, Salman Rusdie had a fatwa on his head. Reading the book carried the same sentence.

I have followed Rushdie's writing career from the Granta short story days. He is one of my favorites, but I did not like Satanic Verses. But I kept my head about it.

[Boojatta]

7. Do Imams admit that they read books that contain pornographic

photographs?

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

6. What if Wim Wenders filmed "Song of Solomon"?

How many differnent religions would have denied it to their followers? "Religion is the opiate of the masses." - K. Marx