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For groups, as for individuals, taking a new name is a quintessential American act, a supreme gesture of self-creation in the land where Norma Jean Baker became Marilyn Monroe, homosexuals became gays, and Esso became Exxon. But for many blacks, the choice of a word by which others will...
In addition to the problem of distributing the book in the U.S., Viking Penguin faced a threat by 44 Islamic countries to ban the sale of its other books within their borders. In a statement, the company insisted that it had not intended to offend anyone and did not plan...
The actual risk faced by Rushdie and his publishers if Khomeini sought to follow through on his threat was difficult to gauge. Of the roughly 25,000 Iranians in Britain, it is believed there may be as many as 1,000 radical extremists, including students on short-term visas. Tehran...
After his public-school ordeals, he went to Cambridge, where he read history (with an emphasis on Islamic subjects) and developed an interest in acting. After graduating in 1968, he moved to Pakistan, where his parents had relocated. His brief stay in a Muslim state was not happy. His production...
Actually, this passage did not spring from Rushdie's imagination: similar accounts of Muhammad's temptation were recorded a millennium ago by Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari and other authoritative Muslim historians. Today's Islamic scholars, however, do not consider the story authentic. Like the section dealing with the scribe...