Salman Rushdie has criticised his publisher for withdrawing a controversial novel about the Prophet Muhammad and his child bride because of fears of a violent backlash from Muslims. ... The withdrawal of Jones's book has renewed the debate over self-censorship in the treatment of Islam.
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Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 19 June 1947. He went to school in Bombay and at Rugby in England, and read History at King's College, Cambridge, where he joined ... Rushdie has challenged official historical truth, launched vituperative attacks on petty nationalism and the censorship of the state,
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Hear Churchill attack censorship in pre-WWII Europe in audio!; 242kb *.wav ... This page is dedicated to author Salman Rushdie who lives under sentence of death by the Iranian government since early 1989 for writing books allegedly "blasphemous" to Islam.
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I had the opportunity to hear Salman Rushdie speak twice on Monday at Central Michigan University. I even got to meet and speak with him briefly. It was amazing how what he talked about overlapped with many of the issues that librarians deal with on a As can be imagined, Rushdie is an outspoken critic of censorship.
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To many readers, Rushdie has become the modern world’s preeminent victim of censorship. ... Salman Rushdie (Cyclopedia of World Authors) ... Salman Rushdie (Critical Survey of Short Fiction...
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Jewel of Medina, Sherry Jone's historical novel about Aisha, wife of Muhammad, was killed by its publisher because of a warning from a crackpot professor who though "widespread violence" could break out, Salman Rushdie-style.
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Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses ... Koran in a Muslim world terrorized by the West will not find it difficult to come under censorship. The Iranian use of the book is obvious; the Indian use of the book is obvious. And Rushdie's use of the Koran is obvious.
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Reconsidering the Rushdie Affair Freedom, censorship and American foreign policy RICHARD WEBSTER ... For if we are to have any hope at all of releasing Salman Rushdie from his cruel ordeal, the first priority must be to put aside the glib certainties and the Manichean simplicities which tend to proliferate whenever the...
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British author Salman Rushdie and the Danish Mohammed cartoonist are among those in Europe who have protested a US publisher's decision to pull a controversial novel on one of Mohammed's young wives. Salman Rushdie accused Random House, "This is censorship by fear and it sets a very bad precedent indeed.";
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The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College. ... The title of Mr. Miles' s lecture is "The Globalizaiton of Censorship: The Case of Salman Rushdie." Salman Rushdie is more than an author whose novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), has succeeded in arousing the ire of Islamic fundamentalists.
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