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Rushdie and the British establishment
By Dr Moeed Pirzada
THE debate whether the British government should have awarded a knighthood to Salman Rushdie seems to be dominated in these columns and in Britain by two sets of equally dangerous hypocrites.
The first set comprises the “faint-hearted cowards
Contents – Part II
Salman Rushdie – a brief life-sketch 54
Salman Rushdie – the making of an ogre 55
Grimus 55
Midnight’s children 58
Shame 63
The satanic verses 67
The fiction of the satanic verses 70
Maxime rodinson 71
Dr Nazir Ali 72
Montgomery watt 72
Karen Armstrong 73
Rushdie’s treatment of the satanic verses 75
Salman Farsi 76
Further allegations against the prophet 78
Blasphemy, apostasy and heresy 81
The ‘burning’ issue surrounding the satanic verses 81
Blasphemy and freedom of speech 82
The teaching in the bible 82
Comparison with Rushdie 83
Blasphemy in the 20th century 85
Islamic teaching on blasphemy 87
The media goes to town over the fatwa 90
Religion confused with culture ? 90
Fair comment by the media 93
Rushdie turned into an icon 95
Rushdie forewarned 96
A most poignant observation 96
Author of his own destiny 97
Rushdie’s defence of the satanic verses 99
Rushdie issues statement 100
Rushdie’s superficial reversal 100
Haroun and the sea of stories 105
East, west 106
Rushdie begins to come out in the open 107
Nobel prize for Rushdie ? 109
Who killed the writer ? 109
Conclusion 111
The future 113
Tolerance is a two-way street 114
Epilogue 118