Posts tagged Salman Rushdie
Why Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ Remains So Controversial Decades After Its Publication
Why Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ Remains So Controversial Decades After Its Publication

(ANALYSIS) One of the most controversial books in recent literary history, Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses,” was published three decades ago this month and almost immediately set off angry demonstrations all over the world, some of them violent. The book, “Satanic Verses,” goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs when Salman Rushdie, in dream sequences, challenges and sometimes seems to mock some of its most sensitive tenets.

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AnalysisMyriam RenaudSatanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, Prophet Muhammed, Attacks, Secondary FeatureComment
As European blasphemy laws endure, journalists should consider how words can get them in trouble
As European blasphemy laws endure, journalists should consider how words can get them in trouble

(COMMENTARY) This is an issue journalists — whether they’re writing opinion/analysis pieces or constructing hard news stories — should stay tuned into to avoid crossing the wrong side of a shifting line.

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Europe, Press Freedom, Religion, OpinionIra RifkinIra Rifkin, blasphemy, Spain, Austria, Charlie Hebdo, Organization Of Islamic Cooperation, Blasphemy Laws, Prophet Mohammed, Salman Rushdie, Europe, U.S. Commission On International Religious Freedom, European Court Of Human Rights, Foreign Policy Magazine, Poland, Russia, Islam, Christianity