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Versos Satânicos é o nome do romance do Indiano Salman Bushdie. O livro não é uma obra escrita de forma aleatória a contar a historia/islâmica, mas de maneira subjetiva e romanceado a experiência de seu autor e sobre sua frustração com o Islã. O que vemos, em linha geral, é uma espécie de romance "ala" Jorge Amado, só que o autor por ser indiano/ex-islâmico vê as coisas de uma outra

The author of The Satanic Verses is seen nuzzling Scarlett Johansson’s neck and whispering in her ear, to her evident delight. Rushdie appears in Johansson's music video for Falling Down Quite how the 60-year-old Sir Salman came to be involved in the musical career of movie starlet Miss Johansson, 23, remains a mystery. The four-minute video is for Falling Down ,the new single from Miss Johansson’s forthcoming debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head. The star of Lost In Translation and The Other Boleyn Girl has turned her hand to singing, and the album features covers of tracks by Tom Waits. David Bowie performs backing vocals. Reaction has been mixed, with some critics suggesting she stick to the day job. The video is conceived as a day in the life of the

Rumours of the growing ‘friendship’ between Riya Sen and novelist Salman Rushdie were splashed all over the papers a few days ago. While Rushdie stated they are indeed good friends, Riya got very upset upon being asked about their association. “Please don’t keep asking me this question,” she snapped. “I don’t want to comment!” Bollywood Gossips

After Geert Wilders released an anti-Islam film "Fitna" criticizing Islam and its holy book the Koran on Thursday, Muslims are again upset at Satanic Verses play in German.A forthcoming stage play in German to be based on the controversial novel, The Satanic Verses by Indian-born author Salman Rushdie, is a “provocation,” a Muslim leader in Germany warned.The stage adaptation is to premiere on Sunday, March 29, 2008, at the Hans Otto Theatre, known by the acronym HOT, in the city of Potsdam, south-west of Berlin. The script is by two Germans, Uwe Eric Laufenberg and Marcus Mislin, and is based on Rushdie’s 1988 novel. Police in the city said there had been no threat to the theatre, but they would guard it on Sunday as a precaution. Germany’s various Muslim groups have differed in t

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Osama Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has threatened to retaliate against Britain for giving a knighthood to novelist Salman Rushdie. In a 20-minute recording, the al-Qaeda second-in-command said the group was preparing a “very precise response” to the British knighthood. In the speech, entitled Malicious Britain and its Indian Slaves, Zawahiri was quoted as warning Mr Brown: “If you did not learn the lesson then we are ready to repeat it, God willing, until we are sure you have fully understood.” Oh goody. I know this sounds a bit selfish, but to you guys ready to defend your God by killing us, would you mind perhaps this time not picking on London? After all there are other parts of the UK and you’ll have some great opportunities during the Olympics. I feel a bit discriminated against if I’m honest. Always bloody London. It’s not really fair now is it? I feel like I’m playing battleships every-time I go out and it would b

British author Salman Rushdie and his wife Padma Lakshmi, host of TV show "Top Chef," are getting divorced, his spokeswoman said on Monday, just two weeks after he was awarded a controversial knighthood.Rushdie, 60, is best known for his novel "The Satanic Verses," which outraged many Muslims and sparked death threats that forced him to live in hiding for nine years.He married Lakshmi, a former model born in 1970 in India, in 2004. She was his fourth wife and the couple had no children."Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife, Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage," spokeswoman Jin Auh said in a statement on his behalf."He asks that the media respect his privacy at this difficult time," the statement said.Rushdie hit the headlines two weeks ago when he was selected for knighthood by Britain's Queen Elizabeth, provoking renewed anger among some Muslims in Iran and Pakistan.When the Indian-born Rushdie started his romance with the model more than 20 years his

Author Salman Rushdie and his wife Padma Lakshmi, host of TV show Top Chef, are getting divorced, his spokeswoman said on Monday, just two weeks after he was awarded a controversial knighthood. Rushdie, 60, is best known for his novel The Satanic Verses, which outraged many Muslims and sparked death threats that forced him to live in hiding for nine years. He married Lakshmi, a former model born in 1970 in India, in 2004. She was his fourth wife and the couple had no children."Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife, Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage," spokeswoman Jin Auh said in a statement on his behalf."He asks that the media respect his privacy at this difficult time," the statement said. Rushdie hit the headlines two weeks ago when he was selected for knighthood by Britain's Queen Elizabeth, provoking renewed anger among some Muslims in Iran and Pakistan. When the Indian-born Rushdie started his romance with the model more than 20 years his junior,

Today's Salman Rushdie update takes us to Pakistan, where more money is being offered for his head, and Britain is being told the knighthood breaches a UN resolution (no less): Pakistan has told Britain that Salman Rushdie's knighthood breaches a United Nations resolution aimed at calming tensions between different religions, The Observer has learnt. The highly unusual warning was made during a meeting with the British High Commissioner in Pakistan and reveals the extent to which senior Pakistani politicians fear the award will damage relations between the countries. ... A well-placed source told The Observer that Brinkley was informed that Britain had acted against the spirit of UN resolution 1624. The resolution calls on all member states to 'enhance dialogue and broaden understanding' as a means to preventing 'the indiscriminate targeting of religions and cultures'. This is Robert Brinkley, the British High Commissioner in Pakistan. And this is from the MEMRI blog: A group of

Last week the author Salmon Rushdie was honoured with a Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. Rushdie has been a target of Islamic hate since his work The Satanic Verses was published in 1988. In 1989, the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini proclaimed a fatwa against Rushdie. The international Islamic response to Rushdie’s knighthood has been, much like the reaction to the Muhammad cartoons controversy, completely irrational and out of all proportion. Apparently, if they find a piece of literature blasphemous, it’s perfectly reasonable for them to murder the author in cold blood. Of course, if we happen to like the same piece of literature and honour the author with a title, that is completely unacceptable. Rushdie’s knighthood has been held up as an example of Islamophobia. Any Muslim who holds this view should not flatter himself. The act of knighting Salmon Rushdie was completely neutral towards Islam. It was done neither to ple

In a battle between flaming fundamentalists and mute moderates, who do you think is going to win? GUEST POST by Irshad Manji. (Times Online)Growing up in Vancouver, I attended an Islamic school every Saturday. There, I learned that Jews cannot be trusted because they worship “moolah, not Allah,” meaning money, not God. According to my teacher, every last Jew is consumed with business. But looking around my neighbourhood, I noticed that most of the new business signs featured Asian languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Punjabi and plenty of Urdu. Not Hebrew. Urdu, which is spoken throughout Pakistan. That reality check made me ask: What if my religious school is not educating me? What if it is indoctrinating me? I am reminded of this question thanks to the news that Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses and ten other works of fiction, will be knighted by the Queen of England. On Monday, Pakistan’s religious affairs minister said that in light of how Rushd

Since it’s another day in Islam that means another day of Jihad.This time Salman Rushdie is back in the spotlightRushdie is best known for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, and the fact that his wife is seriously hot:I must admit I have never read much Rushdie--tried, but got profoundly bored. But nonetheless, I am a fan. Heck, I’m a fan of anyone the mullahs put under jihad watch.Apparently The Satanic Verses contained some passages that were not flattering to The Prophet. And this caused The Ayatollah Khomeini , the flaming lunatic that started the Iranian Islamic Revolution, to issue a fatwa.After the guy who translated the book was stabbed to death, Rushdie apologized for offending the Religion of Peace, and went into hiding for nine years.In 1999 the president of Iran, Mohammad Khatmi, made an off handed comment that the fatwa was finished. This inspired Rushdie to come out of hiding.But since then rumblings from the Revolutionary Guard have indicated that the whole "aposta

Reacção dura à decisão do Reino Unido em homenagear o escritor   «Se algum homem-bomba se fizer explodir, ele teria toda a razão para o fazer a não ser que o governo britânico peça desculpa e retire o título de «cavaleiro» a Simon Rushdie, referiu esta segunda-feira o ministro dos Assuntos Religiosos do Irão, Mohammed Ijaz ul Haq citado pela Sky News. «Este é o momento para 1.5 biliões de muçulmanos de todo o mundo se aperceberem da gravidade desta decisão», acrescentou salientando ainda que o «Ocidente está a acusar os muçulmanos de extremismo e terrorismo». O Irão acusou o Reino Unido de insultar o Islão ao ordenar cavaleiro o escritor Salman Rushdie, autor da polémica obra «Versículos Satânicos», que lhe custou uma fatwa, lançada pelo Ayatollah Khomeini. Segundo Mohammad

I was not surprised at the Muslim world's negative reaction to the news that Salmon Rushdie has been recommended for a knighthood. Anyone who reads a newspaper every once in a while could have seen this coming. But according to Guardian Unlimited, neither the committee that made the recommendation, nor those who have been pushing for this honor for Rushdie, saw it coming. They are "stunned."It

Unfortunately, Islamofascists worldwide don't think so. Worse, they're using this now as a justification for suicide bombings, and worse: Britain's decision to award Salman Rushdie a knighthood set off a storm of protest in the Islamic world today, with a Pakistani government minister giving warning that it could provide justification for suicide bomb attacks.Rushdie was awarded the title in the Queen's Birthday Honours on Saturday. He has lived under police protection since the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran pronounced a fatwa (death sentence) on him over alleged blasphemies against Islam in his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.Today, Pakistan's religious affairs minister suggested that the knighthood was so grave an offence that any Muslim anywhere in the world would be justified in taking violent action."If somebody has to attack by strapping bombs to his body to protect the honour of the Prophet then it is justified," Mr ul-Haq told the National Assembly.I hope the Brit

Yahoo! News: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan on Monday condemned Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie as an affront to Muslim sentiments, and a Cabinet minister said the honor provided a justification for suicide attacks."This is an occasion for the (world's) 1.5 billion Muslims to look at the seriousness of this decision," Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, religious affairs minister, said in parliament. "The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism. If someone exploded a bomb on his body, he would be right to do so unless the British government apologizes and withdraws the 'sir' title," ul-Haq said.[...] Lawmakers in Pakistan's lower house of parliament on Monday passed a resolution proposed by Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sher Afgan Khan Niazi who branded Rushdie — who was born in India into a Muslim family — a "blasphemer.""The 'sir' title from Britain for blasphemer Salman Rushdie has hurt the sentiments of the Muslims across the world. Every reli

India-born author Salman Rushdie, whose novel 'The Satanic Verses' earned the ire of the clergy in Iran, has been knighted. The author, along with England's legendary cricketer Ian Botham, will be knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Rushdie was forced into hiding for a decade after Iran's spiritual leader ordered his assassination following the publication of Satanic Verses. Rushdie is one of the prominent and often one of the most controversial novelists of the late 20th century. Besides the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children in 1981, he won the ''Booker of Booker'', a special award honouring the best novel in the 25-year history of the prize in 1993. The inclusion of Botham comes after he was previously denied the honour for being suspended for smoking marijuana on a cricket tour to the West Indies in 1986.His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), provoked violent reactions from radical muslims. After death threats and a fetwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, callin

Der Spiegel on the Pope Rage:The pope has apologized for the outrage amongst Muslims sparked by his recent comments. But the episode proves once again that criticizing Islam is dangerous. Twenty years ago in the German city of Bremen, Dutch comedian Rudi Carrell's life depended on police protection. His offense? In a satirical program on German television, he let fly with a lewd joke about the then leader of the Iranian revolution Ayatollah Khomeini. Mass demonstrations in Iran -- orchestrated, no doubt, by the government -- were the result. The threats of violence led to an apology by Carrell, and he never again made a joke about any Muslim -- at least not on television. In February 1989, the Ayatollah then released a fatwa calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses." The book, he and other Muslim leaders claimed, was a grave misrepresentation of Islam. Rushdie's Japanese translator lost his life as a result of the fatwa and Rushdie himself went int

Joyce Carol Oates has an impressive resume: Princeton University Professor, prolific author, winner of numerous awards including being short listed for the Nobel Prize. I have read a bunch of her stories in the past usually taking an extended break because they tend to be so dark I can get berried in the story. Recently her reputation has taken on a more notorious side when she based a story off of the local murder of a college student. It isn't uncommon for writers to draw off of news events or another persons life story. Truth is stranger than fiction and life can have a stronger dramatic impact than anything a person can make up. Joyce capitalized on that fact by writing a particularly harsh story based on recent events surrounding the death of a local college student. The story is well written and can be used as a cautionary tale warning of the dangers of binge drinking on college campuses. What many people will find disturbing is how you are never left with a clear resolut