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The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West
The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West Author:Daniel Pipes Daniel Pipes, Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, explains why the publication of The Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event, with far-reaching consequences. Pipes details what the fundamentalists perceived, and what the novel actually said, that proved so offensive to some Muslims.