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The satanic verses controversy, also known as the rushdie affair, was the heated and frequently violent reaction of muslims to the publication of salman. As salman rushdie himself characterises it, if the satanic verses is anything, it is the migrantseye view of the world. And theres the rub because the satanic verses is quite possibly the single most confusing piece of fiction i have ever read. Bbc news uk magazine what happened to the book burners. Jaipur literature festival why i read from the satanic verses our intention was not to offend anyones religious sensibilities, but to give a voice to a writer who had been silenced by a death.
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