What does /his/ think of the Satanic Verses?

>>585127
>>>/lit/

>>585139
I'm not talking about the book, I'm talking about the historical religious event outlined in the book

>>585139
With the image, he's probably not talking about the novel itself, but the reaction to it, which is history.

>>585127
Was this the first time the West realized how dangerous butthurt Muslims could be?

>>585154
>I'm talking about the historical religious event outlined in the book
Works of fiction aren't "history" mate.

>>>/lit/

>>585154

It's a fictional book.

>>585127

I had dinner with Salaman Rushdie during my sophomore year of college. He was a cheeky cunt and gave a great speech afterwards.

He also recited the inscription on the one ring in black speech. Bro-tier, would welcome back to the states anytime.

>>585167
>>585169
The relation of the verses concerning the Heavenly Birds is as much a piece of religious history as half the threads on /his/. It's a historical event.

>>585176

You're an idiot if you think that anything in Rushdie's novel is a serious attempt to study that or anything else as a serious piece of history. It's a fanstasy novel. Entirely fiction from beginning to end and entirely intended to be.

>>585187
Good thing Rushdie's novel itself is not /his/ then. The history one aspect of it adapts and dramatizes is.

>>585127
>>585154
As a Iranian, It's well known that the new Ayatollah did it because he wanted to be well known. He didn't actually have anything against Salman but it stopped a coup from breaking out.