Podcasts about Satanic Verses

This is one of my favorite episodes of the show in recent memory. It's a conversation with the author Salman Rushdie about the experience of losing control of your identity in the world. This happened to Rushdie in the most extreme way. But many of us know some milder version of this — and increasingly so in the age of social media. Rushdie's story is hard to wrap your mind around. When he published his fourth novel, “The Satanic Verses,” in 1988, he was a literary star. And then the Ayatollah of Iran issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. In this episode, Rushdie recounts the ways that upended his world, creating a “shadow self” that he would spend years trying to escape. And he reflects on the different ways he's wrestled with that shadow self — in the years following the fatwa and then more recently, after a 2022 knife attack that nearly killed him.This episode was originally recorded in April 2024. Mentioned:Knife by Salman RushdieMidnight's Children by Salman RushdieBook Recommendations:Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith GrossmanOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Castle by Franz KafkaThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find the transcript and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.htmlThis episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Marie Cascione, Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith, Marina King, Jan Kobal, Kristin Lin and Jack McCordick. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Sonia Herrero and Mrinalini Chakravorty. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

In this episode of The Distribution, host Brandon Sedloff speaks with Sarah Schwarzschild, COO of Mavik Capital, to explore what operational alpha looks like inside a high-performing real estate investment firm. With experience spanning investment banking, secondaries, and platform leadership, Sarah brings a unique lens to how strategy, culture, and execution intersect in private markets. They dive into how Mavik has structured itself for speed, collaboration, and long-term performance—from flat organizational design to real-time data feedback loops. Sarah shares her approach to building systems that reduce friction, unlock better decision-making, and ensure every team member—from assistants to senior investors—has direct alignment through carried interest. They also discuss: - How Mavik balances flexibility with discipline in its investment process - The firm's unique capital strategy, including accordion-style fund sizing - Why Sarah believes in weekly feedback, habit tracking, and prioritization as leadership tools - Building an internal culture of experimentation, iteration, and psychological safety - Why operational excellence is a source of alpha, not just back-office hygiene - How technology, automation, and data scraping will define the next generation of investment managers This episode is a masterclass in applying startup principles inside a real estate investment platform—ideal for any leader thinking about how to build with intention. Links: Mavik Capital - https://www.mavikcapital.com/ Sarah on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-schwarzschild-5426483/ Brandon on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bsedloff/ Juniper Square - https://www.junipersquare.com/ Book recommendations: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie - https://a.co/d/2eD81SB Atomic Habits by James Clear - https://a.co/d/9eU79Op The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler - https://a.co/d/iglqwPt Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:02:01) - Sarah's background and career (00:08:44) - What are you focused on from an investment perspective? (00:10:51) - What is your span of control as COO? (00:15:59) - How do you compare and contrast operationally Mavik vs. the industry standard? (00:18:46) - Flexibility within a large organization (00:20:35) - How do you effectively drive change? (00:22:21) - Leadership philosophies (00:29:52) - Achieving long-term outperformance (00:35:18) - What are your priorities today? (00:41:29) - What is the role of an operational leader in an investment committee? (00:44:18) - Opportunities in the market (00:47:02) - Sarah's Jordan 1 shoe (00:48:36) - Book suggestions 

Join Raza Ahmed and Danayal Zia for Friday's show from 4-6pm where will be discussing :´Palestinian Press and Allegations Answered: Satanic Verses Part 2' Palestinian Press Join us ahead of World Press Freedom Dy as we shed light on the deliberate targeting and killing of Palestinian journalists. These are not accidents of war, but calculated attempts to extinguish eyewitness testimony. Tune in to find out the reason behind the systematic silencing of these truth tellers. Allegations Answered: Satanic Verses Part 2 Is Islamic teaching arbitrary and intrusive? Are Muslims typically violent and fanatical? These are the two specific criticisms from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses that we would like to explore today. Where do these impressions come from? Do they reflect the true teachings of Islam as found in the Holy Quran? What of the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be on him)? Join us as we go on to consider the role of Islamic guidance and how Muslims should be adopting them to promote the peacefulness inherent in Islamic practice. Guests : Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestinian scientist, author, and activist) Producers : Zohra Mobashir and Nabeela Shah

Date: 25/04/2025 Join Raza Ahmed and Danayal Zia for Friday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: ‘Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad' and ‘Allegations Answered to Satanic Verses' Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the current Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, has led with wisdom and compassion since 2003. Advocating for peace, justice, and interfaith dialogue, he champions education, minority rights, and poverty alleviation. Through his speeches and humanitarian efforts, he continues to inspire unity and global harmony. Allegations Answered to Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie's book 'The Satanic Verses' caused controversy around the world with its allegations against Islam. Parts of his book raise allegations against the Holy Prophet of Islam ﷺ& the Holy Quran, whilst others ridicule Islamic figures and general beliefs. Muslims of course deny these allegations, but what is the truth of the matter? Join us as we go directly to the source of Islam and debunk these myths rationally. This episode looks at Miracles and Leadership Guests: Imam Abdul Azeem Ahmad Producers: Baasmah Nadeem and Faiza Mirza

Join Raza Ahmed, Danayal Zia & Abdul Qayyum Rashid for Friday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: ‘Giving makes us richer' and ‘Allegations answered (Satanic Verses)' Giving makes us richer Join us as we explore why giving charity is so important and how it can literally make you richer. We will also be discussing statistics that show economic growth increases charity giving and that in turn increases economic growth. Allegations answered (Satanic Verses) Continuing our series on the allegations in ‘The Satanic Verses', this episode exposes its distortion of Angel Gabriel and the misrepresentation of prophetic integrity. The book mocks Prophet Abraham, twisting his story despite Islam's teaching that his actions were divinely ordained. By blending religious beliefs in a misleading way, it misrepresents fundamental teachings. Join us as we set the record straight with the truth. Guests: Colin Bray - Partnerships Manager for Charitable Giving, Britain's 3rd-largest Payroll Giving Agency – a charity which provides services for companies to offer their employees the chance to donate directly from their salaries and save income tax. Producers: Farhana Khan, Kafi Zafar and Faiza Mirza

Join Qayyum Rashid, Raza Ahmed and Danayal Zia for Friday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: ‘US Tariffs' and ‘Allegations Answered: Satanic Verses Part 2' US Tariffs Allegations Answered: Satanic Verses Part 2 The Satanic Verses falsely portrays the noble wives of the Holy Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and misrepresents Mecca, a city honoured by God Himself. Islam upholds the dignity of the Prophet's family, and history stands as a testament to their virtue and respect. Mecca, the heart of Islam, was purified by the Prophet ﷺ and remains a beacon of monotheism. Join us as we uncover the truth, correct these distortions, and honour the legacy of Islam with evidence and clarity. Producers: Sana Nadeem, Nabahat Nayyrah, and Faiza Mirza

Join Raza Ahmed and Danayal Zia for Friday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: ‘Free Speech and Palestine' and Response to ‘Satanic Verses' Free Speech and Palestine Free Speech is championed in the West. But recent events with Columbia student and Palestinian activist, Mahmoud Khalil, show us that maybe that's only when it favours a certain narrative. Why is speaking up for Palestine and the plight of innocents being murdered by war crimes seen as a crime in itself? Is free speech under threat in today's world? Join us as we discuss how free 'free speech' really is and why Palestine is such a contentious issue. Response to ‘Satanic Verses' Salman Rushdie's book 'The Satanic Verses' caused controversy around the world with its allegations against Islam. Parts of his book raise allegations against the Holy Prophet of Islam ﷺ & the Holy Quran, whilst others ridicule Islamic figures and general beliefs. Muslims of course deny these allegations, but what is the truth of the matter? Join us as we go directly to the source of Islam and debunk these myths rationality. Guests: Abbas Najib - CEO of Better Communities Bradford, a charity uplifting the Bradford community by enhancing the availability of essential services, facilities, and knowledge for residents. Producers: Baasmah Nadeem and Fezia Haq

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Comedians David Feinberg and Tommy Koch join us for Drew's latest Cleveland fever dream. Discussion includes Cracker Barrel chicken and dumplings, auditioning for Wheel of Fortune, and ending it all in the Batmobile. Put down your copy of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, we've got another episode. Check out more from David: http://instagram.com/davidfeinbergonline Check out more from Tommy: http://linktr.ee/TommyKoch Episode: “Batmobile” (S3E7) http://instagram.com/clevelandrockspodcast Email us: clevelandrockspodcast@gmail.com

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Beachball head. Who's got the button? Are JLR's tires bald? Does Duji have walking pneumonia? Against Me lead singer performs a radical song at Bernie Sanders fighting the oligarchy rally. The Satanic Verses. JLR makes an announcement. Someone on the show has a coolant leak. A 20-year-old missing Pitt student was last seen at Riu Republic Resort in Punta Cana. Wendy Williams asks for help. Rover found a scratch on his car and is playing detective to figure out how it happened. Is Duji trying to drive a wedge between Rover and B2? Duji is spotting. The director of Human Centipede made another movie five years ago that will not be released. Duji lied about her age. Snitzer and his wife sleep in a queen size bed. High school track runner is hit with a baton in the back of the head. Did you hear that?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Satanic Verses. JLR makes an announcement. Someone on the show has a coolant leak. A 20-year-old missing Pitt student was last seen at Riu Republic Resort in Punta Cana.

Beachball head. Who's got the button? Are JLR's tires bald? Does Duji have walking pneumonia? Against Me lead singer performs a radical song at Bernie Sanders fighting the oligarchy rally. The Satanic Verses. JLR makes an announcement. Someone on the show has a coolant leak. A 20-year-old missing Pitt student was last seen at Riu Republic Resort in Punta Cana. Wendy Williams asks for help. Rover found a scratch on his car and is playing detective to figure out how it happened. Is Duji trying to drive a wedge between Rover and B2? Duji is spotting. The director of Human Centipede made another movie five years ago that will not be released. Duji lied about her age. Snitzer and his wife sleep in a queen size bed. High school track runner is hit with a baton in the back of the head. Did you hear that?

The British-Indian novelist Sir Salman Rushdie has faced his alleged attacker in court, after he was stabbed multiple times in 2022 during a public lecture in New York state. Hadi Matar, accused of assault and attempted murder, denies the charges. The author is no stranger to threats: in 1989, Iran's Supreme Leader called for his death, after deeming his novel The Satanic Verses blasphemous. Will this attack on Rushdie, a symbol of free speech himself, threaten freedom of expression?This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestoryGuests:Will Pavia, New York Correspondent, The Times.Robbie Millen, Literary Editor, The Times and The Sunday Times. Host: Luke Jones.Further reading: Salman Rushdie trial: I was dying, author says as he recounts attackClips: BBC News, WION, CNN, The Daily Show, Cream Cakes, American Express, CBC News, University of Vermont.Photo: Getty Images. Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Salman Rushdie has been getting death threats for more than 35 years. The Indian-born British-American novelist sparked outrage with his book "The Satanic Verses" in 1988. It was declared blasphemous by many Muslims, so much so that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him, calling for his death. In August 2022, the Booker Prize-winning author was stabbed multiple times on stage in New York state, leaving him blind in one eye. His attacker is now on trial for attempted murder. The book "Knife" is Rushdie's account of what happened. He spoke about the work at the 20th edition of the Hay Festival Cartagena in Colombia, where he sat down with Léa Hurel from FRANCE 24's Spanish channel.

A man stands trial in New York for allegedly attacking author Salman Rushdie in 2022. A man in Texas is caught hunting on private land from a port-a-potty turned into a deer blind. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Banned in India till recently, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses has hit the bookshelves in Khan Market. In Episode 1579 of CutTheClutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks back at his involvement in publishing Madhu Jain's review of the book, leading to protests by Syed Shahabuddin, ban on the book and shows of revenge movie International Gorillay in Pakistan.----more----Read Antara Baruah's article here: https://theprint.in/feature/around-town/the-satanic-verses-is-the-hot-new-item-at-bahrisons-bookstore-khan-market-consensus-breaks/2417703/----more----Read Madhu Jain's Open Magazine article here: https://openthemagazine.com/art-culture/remembering-the-deadly-review/----more----Read Shekhar Gupta's piece on Salman Rushdie's movie here: https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-and-the-arts/films/story/19900615-internat[…]re-film-on-islam-revenge-on-salman-rushdie-812670-1990-06-14----more----Read Madhu Jain's book review of Satanic Verses here: https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-and-the-arts/books/story/19880915-book-review-salman-rushdie-the-satanic-verses-797671-1988-09-14

Salman Rushdie's book Satanic Verses could, perhaps, FiNALLY be available in India. But with so many verses under the bridge will it matter?

Newly uncovered letters reveal just how deep the crisis over "The Satanic Verses" became. And in the US, have Democrats abandoned their working-class base?

It was the novel that sparked a geopolitical crisis. Now, newly uncovered letters reveal just how deep the crisis over "The Satanic Verses" became. 

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Chas & Dr Dave discuss Mr Nobody, Closing The Garbage Can, and The Funniest Thing Elon Musk Has Seen Since The Babylon Bee's Last Tweet 0:00 - Introducing Dr Dave 4:38 - Grateful (IRL Peppers/The Internet Reviewed) 10:07 - Garbage Time (Again)45:25 - Closing Arguments 1:05:23 - Big Questions For The Election 1:38:52 - Polling 2:03:08 - Potential Election Storylines 2:24:24 - Dr Dave's Final Election Thoughts 2:31:49 - Chas Unleashed (Musk PACs, Dogs That Didn't Bark) 2:55:47 - Chas Unleashed (Policy Time: Trump's Taxes) 3:47:51 - Chas Unleashed: (Policy Time: Harris' Taxes) 4:12:34 - Chas Unleashed: (Policy Time: Taxes Comparison) SHOW NOTES: * Dave's FREE article!!!: Religion and responsibility in international relations: Thatcher, Mahathir, and The Satanic Verses https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/religion-and-responsibility-in-international-relations-thatcher-mahathir-and-the-satanic-verses/6FF069E704CE4732DC98B57DA962C6A2  * Kirsten Drysdale's review of Jackson Hinkle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE3HN41ULX8 * Chas Trapped in Today Tonight (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnyxP6TNFJU&ab_channel=elitehacker01 * Chas Trapped in Today Tonight (Part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-PIfPV7fc&ab_channel=elitehacker01 * Why Polling is Bloody Tough https://goodauthority.org/news/election-poll-vote2024-data-pollster-choices-weighting/ SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.gg/WxDD2PPvaW *PEP Merch Store: https://pepchasdaveshop.com/  

词汇提示1.heretics 异端2.savaged 激烈批评3.mugged 公开打劫4.tormentor 折磨者5.scapegoat 替罪羊6.marchers 抗议游行者7.Enlightenment 启蒙教育8.blasphemy 亵渎原文Salman Rushdie: 'Life Under Threat' (2)Out there where you are, in the rich and powerful and lucky west, has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics,drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?The original metaphor has reasserted itself.I'm back in the balloon, asking for the right to live.What is my single life worth" Despair whispers in my ear: 'Not a lot.'But I refuse to give in to despair.I refuse to give in to despair because I've been shown love as well as hatred.I know that many people do care, and are appalled by the crazy, upside-down logic of the post-fatwa world, in which a single novelist can be accused of having savaged or 'mugged' a whole community, becoming its tormentor (instead of it starred and feathered victim) and the scapegoat for all its discontents.Many people do ask, for example: When a white pop-star-turned-Islamic-fanatic speaks approvingly about killing an Indian immigrant, how does the Indian immigrant end up being called the racist?Or,again: What minority is smaller and weaker than a minority of one?I refuse to give in to despair even though, for a thousand days and more, I've been put through a degree course in worthlessness, my own personal and specific worthlessness.My first teachers were the mobs marching down distant boulevards, baying for my blood, and finding, soon enough, their echoes on the English streets.I could not understand the force that makes parents hang murderous slogans around their children's necks.I have learned to understand it.It burns books and effigies and thinks itself holy.But at first, as I watched the marchers, I felt them trampling on my heart.Once again, however, I have been saved by instances of fair-mindedness, of goodness.Every time I learn that a reader somewhere has been touched by The Satanic Verses, moved and entertained and stimulated by it, it arouses deep feelings in me.And there are more and more such readers nowadays, my postbag tells me, readers(including Muslims) who are willing to give my burned, spurned child a fair hearing at long last.Sometimes I think that, one day, Muslims will be ashamed of what Muslims did in these times, will find the 'Rushdie affair' as improbable as the west now finds martyr-burning.One day they may agree that - as the European Enlightenment demonstrated- freedom of thought is precisely freedom from religious control, freedom from accusations of blasphemy.Maybe they'll agree, too, that the row over The Satanic Verses was at bottom an argument about who should have power over the grand narrative, the Story of Islam, and that power must belong equally to everyone.That even if my novel were incompetent, its attempt to retell the story would still be important.That if I've failed, others must succeed, because those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change,truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.翻译萨尔曼·拉什迪:《生命受到威胁》(2)在你们所处的地方，在富裕、强大、幸运的西方，宗教迫害人们真的已经很久了吗，把他们当作异教徒烧死，把他们当作女巫淹死，以至于当你看到宗教迫害时，你都认不出来了?原来的比喻再次出现了。我又回到了气球里，要求生存的权利。我的单身生活值多少钱?”绝望在我耳边低语:“不值多少钱。”但我拒绝向绝望屈服。我拒绝向绝望屈服，因为我既被爱也被恨。我知道，很多人确实关心这个问题，并对法特瓦后世界的疯狂、颠倒的逻辑感到震惊，在这个世界上，一个小说家就可能被指控蹂躏或“抢劫”了整个社会，成为它的折磨者(而不是被涂上焦油和羽毛的受害者)，成为所有不满的替罪羊。例如，很多人确实会问:当一个白人流行歌星出身的伊斯兰狂热分子赞许地说要杀死一名印度移民时，为什么印度移民最终会被称为种族主义者?又或者:哪个少数群体比一个人的少数群体更小更弱?我拒绝向绝望屈服，即使在过去的一千多天里，我已经完成了一个关于毫无价值的学位课程，我个人的和特定的毫无价值。我的启蒙老师是那些在远处林荫大道上游行的暴徒，他们叫嚷着要我的血，很快，他们就在英国的街道上找到了回声。我无法理解是什么力量让父母把杀人的标语挂在孩子的脖子上。我已经学会了理解它。它焚烧书籍和雕像，认为自己是神圣的。但起初，当我看着游行队伍时，我感到他们在践踏我的心。然而，我又一次被公正和善良的事例所拯救。每当我得知某个地方的读者被《撒旦诗篇》所感动，被它所感动，被它所娱乐，被它所刺激，我的内心就会产生深深的感情。现在有越来越多这样的读者，我的邮袋告诉我，读者(包括穆斯林)终于愿意给我那个被烧伤、被抛弃的孩子一个公平的机会。有时我想，总有一天，穆斯林会为自己在这段时间里所做的事感到羞愧，会发现“拉什迪事件”就像西方现在认为焚烧烈士一样不可能。有一天，他们可能会同意——正如欧洲启蒙运动所证明的那样——思想自由正是不受宗教控制的自由，不受亵渎指控的自由。也许他们也会同意，关于《撒旦诗篇》的争论本质上是关于谁应该拥有对宏大叙事——伊斯兰故事——的权力的争论，这种权力必须平等地属于每个人。即使我的小说不称职，它试图重述这个故事的努力仍然很重要。如果我失败了，其他人一定会成功，因为那些没有能力掌控自己生活中的故事的人，没有能力复述、反思、解构、拿它开玩笑，也没有能力随着时代的变化而改变它的人，真的是无能为力的，因为他们无法想出新的想法。

Did Muhammad initially allow for the intercession of pagan idols in Mecca? Islamic sources say yes. Michael Lofton examines these sources and then considers various Islamic responses that are made to confirm the reliability of Muhammad – despite this incident.

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One of the world's greatest novelists, Salman Rushdie has won many prestigious international literary awards and was knighted for services to literature in 2007. He won the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight's Children, a novel that was also twice voted as the best of all-time Booker winners. In 1989 Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared that Rushdie's fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, was blasphemous and pronounced a death sentence against its author. For over a decade he lived in hiding with close security, a period of his life that he wrote about in the 2012 memoir Joseph Anton. His most recent book Knife details the horrific stabbing he survived in 2022.Talking to John Wilson, Salman Rushdie recalls his childhood in Bombay, and the folk tales and religious fables he grew up with. He chooses Indian independence and partition in 1947 as one of the defining moments of his creative life, a period that formed the historical backdrop to Midnight's Children. He discusses how, having first moved to England as a schoolboy and then to New York after the fatwa, the subject of migration has recurred throughout much of his work, including The Satanic Verses. Rushdie also explains how "surrealism, fabulism and mythical storytelling” are such an influence on his work, with particular reference to his 1999 novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet which was inspired by the ancient Greek tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. As Rushdie says, "truth in art can be arrived at through many doors”.Producer: Edwina PitmanArchive used:BBC News, 12 Aug 2022 Newsnight, BBC2, 12 Aug 2022 BBC Sound archive, India: Transfer of Power, 15 August 1947 Nehru: Man of Two Worlds, BBC1, 27 Feb 1962 Midnight's Children, Book at Bedtime, BBC Radio 4, 27 August 1997 Advert, Fresh Cream Cakes, 1979 BBC News, 14 Feb 1989 The World At One, BBC Radio 4, 14 Feb 1989 BBC News, 28 May 1989 Today, BBC Radio 4, 27 April 1990 Clip from Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 9, episode 3

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Marlon James, who ten years ago published his Booker Prize winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. He tells me how that remarkable book came about, how he feared it would be 'my Satanic Verses', what genre means to him, the importance of myth, and what he learned from the X-Men.

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Marlon James, who ten years ago published his Booker Prize winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. He tells me how that remarkable book came about, how he feared it would be 'my Satanic Verses', what genre means to him, the importance of myth, and what he learned from the X-Men.

Celebrated writer Salman Rushdie was subjected to a savage knife attack in 2022. The attack came 33-years after the Supreme Leader of Iran issued a fatwa calling for him to be killed, in protest at his novel The Satanic Verses. In his new book, Knife, Rushdie recounts the events of that day, and his ‘miraculous' recovery.

Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years trying to escape the shadow the fatwa cast on him, and for some time, he thought he succeeded. But in 2022, an assailant attacked him onstage at a speaking engagement in western New York and nearly killed him.“I think now I'll never be able to escape it. No matter what I've already written or may now write, I'll always be the guy who got knifed,” he writes in his new memoir, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.”In this conversation, I asked Rushdie to reflect on his desire to escape the fatwa; the gap between the reputation of his novels and their actual merits; how his “shadow selves” became more real to millions than he was; how many of us in the internet age also have to contend with our many shadow selves; what Rushdie lives for now; and more.Mentioned:Midnight's Children by Salman RushdieBook Recommendations:Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith GrossmanOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Castle by Franz KafkaThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin and Aman Sahota. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Sonia Herrero and Mrinalini Chakravorty.

Salman Rushdie is probably most closely associated with his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, a book inspired by the life of the prophet Muhummad. The book was notorious not just for its contents but because of the intense backlash, and the threat it posed to his safety and wellbeing. While Rushdie saw it as an exploration of Islamic culture, some Muslims saw it as blasphemous. The year after it published, Iran's supreme leader issued a fatwa, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie.Rushdie moved to New York in 2000, and was able to resume the public life of a popular author, but that all changed on August 12th, 2022 when a young man charged at Rushdie while he was on stage at an event, stabbing him at least a dozen times.After two years, he has chronicled his brush with death, and the aftermath in his new memoir 'KNIFE'. For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Deeply problematic, ugly, satanic texts about biblical jihad (passages from the Hebrew bible that no serious theologian would ever cite without significant, careful assessment of the context), are suddenly surfacing among the ranks of Israeli politics to seemingly justify what appears to be a war campaign hell bent on elimination. On this episode, Pastor Andrew reads his letter to his representatives alerting them to this danger, breaks down these (and other) passages, their origins, why they are problematic, and how their prima facie invocation is a perilous brand of Religio-INsanity.

The Drunk Guys drink Al-Lat of beer this week when they read The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. They will get fatwa after they drink The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Root + Branch and Hudson Valley Brewery. Join the Drunk Guys next Tuesday for The Unbearable Lightness of

James Altucher is back, this time with an exciting new sub-series called "Hooked on the First Line," where he and his guests dive deep into the world of storytelling through the lens of a novel's opening sentence. Today's episode kicks off with Cal Fussman, an expert storyteller and interviewer, as they explore the first lines of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez and "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie.Imagine if you could predict a book's richness, complexity, and emotional highs and lows just by its first line. James and Cal explain why a well-crafted first line is like a seductive whisper inviting you into a world that you'll never want to leave. They go on to discuss how these opening lines are a microcosm of the themes, characters, and questions that the book poses. In this episode, you'll gain insights not only into the craft of writing but also into the art of storytelling itself—how it captures our attention, holds us hostage, and ultimately transforms us.------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to “The James Altucher Show” wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook

James Altucher is back, this time with an exciting new sub-series called "Hooked on the First Line," where he and his guests dive deep into the world of storytelling through the lens of a novel's opening sentence. Today's episode kicks off with Cal Fussman, an expert storyteller and interviewer, as they explore the first lines of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez and "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie.Imagine if you could predict a book's richness, complexity, and emotional highs and lows just by its first line. James and Cal explain why a well-crafted first line is like a seductive whisper inviting you into a world that you'll never want to leave. They go on to discuss how these opening lines are a microcosm of the themes, characters, and questions that the book poses. In this episode, you'll gain insights not only into the craft of writing but also into the art of storytelling itself-how it captures our attention, holds us hostage, and ultimately transforms us.------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

After the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988), the poetics of incitement— found in texts originating in the West containing themes and representations of Islam hurtful to Muslims—became an accepted method of textual production in the West. Production of such texts intensified after the attacks of 9/11. Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred (Lever Press, 2023) by Masood Ashraf Raja urges a new mode of reading, one that permits Western readers to transcend local reading practices in order to, as best as one can, read from the point of view of the Other. Raja argues that the lack of understanding of Muslim responses to the poetics of incitement in the West is the result of a lack of cross-cultural knowledge. He claims metropolitan universities often do not teach the proper social, historical, and religious context required for effectively reading these texts with any form of cultural knowledge.  To remedy this, Raja offers and theorizes “democratic reading practices” and new ways for students to engage with texts. A genealogy of the Muslim Sacred is included, thereby giving readers the history and specific knowledge that constitutes an average Muslim reader of these texts, a subject who should be imagined and empathized with when those in the West read works of the poetics of incitement. Democratic Criticism encourages Western readers to develop a deeper understanding of the meaning-making processes of the Islamic world while at the same time encouraging the Muslim readers to read representations of the Islamic world with a more expansive understanding. It will be a helpful tool in creating reading practices that allow both teachers and students of literature to transcend their mode of reading as universal and to read from the perspective of the Other, and allow readers to engage meaningfully with these texts. Students and scholars of world literature, history, and religious studies will find this book insightful and valuable. Iqra Shagufta Cheema writes and teaches in the areas of media cultures, Anglophone literatures, transnational digital feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and global south film studies. Check out their upcoming books: The Other #MeToos and ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir. Follow them on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

After the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988), the poetics of incitement— found in texts originating in the West containing themes and representations of Islam hurtful to Muslims—became an accepted method of textual production in the West. Production of such texts intensified after the attacks of 9/11. Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred (Lever Press, 2023) by Masood Ashraf Raja urges a new mode of reading, one that permits Western readers to transcend local reading practices in order to, as best as one can, read from the point of view of the Other. Raja argues that the lack of understanding of Muslim responses to the poetics of incitement in the West is the result of a lack of cross-cultural knowledge. He claims metropolitan universities often do not teach the proper social, historical, and religious context required for effectively reading these texts with any form of cultural knowledge.  To remedy this, Raja offers and theorizes “democratic reading practices” and new ways for students to engage with texts. A genealogy of the Muslim Sacred is included, thereby giving readers the history and specific knowledge that constitutes an average Muslim reader of these texts, a subject who should be imagined and empathized with when those in the West read works of the poetics of incitement. Democratic Criticism encourages Western readers to develop a deeper understanding of the meaning-making processes of the Islamic world while at the same time encouraging the Muslim readers to read representations of the Islamic world with a more expansive understanding. It will be a helpful tool in creating reading practices that allow both teachers and students of literature to transcend their mode of reading as universal and to read from the perspective of the Other, and allow readers to engage meaningfully with these texts. Students and scholars of world literature, history, and religious studies will find this book insightful and valuable. Iqra Shagufta Cheema writes and teaches in the areas of media cultures, Anglophone literatures, transnational digital feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and global south film studies. Check out their upcoming books: The Other #MeToos and ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir. Follow them on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Tonight on the GeekNights Book Club, we discuss Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Steeped in allegory and endlessly interpreted, it is a fantastic book that is well worth your read.

David Remnick, the longtime editor of the New Yorker, has written a new profile of the novelist Salman Rushdie. In 1989, Iran's Supreme Leader declared Rushdie's book, “The Satanic Verses,” blasphemous and issued a “fatwa” calling for his assassination. Last August, Rushdie was attacked — and nearly killed — on stage at a conference in New York State. Preet speaks with Remnick about how Rushdie has responded to the threats on his life, the price he's paid for his art, and the importance of free speech. Plus, did Rep. George Santos violate campaign finance rules? And will state and federal prosecutors consult with each other before potentially bringing charges against Donald Trump?  Don't miss the Insider bonus, where Preet and Remnick discuss their shared love of Bruce Springsteen, and whether Remnick would write a profile of George Santos. To listen, try the membership for just $1 for one month: cafe.com/insider. For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/salman-rushdies-defiance-with-david-remnick/ Tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with the hashtag #AskPreet, email us your questions and comments at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Check out other CAFE podcasts: Now & Then and Up Against The Mob. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A history of knife wielding assassins, from medieval times to Salman Rushdie's attempted murder in New York, in 2022. The word “assassin” comes from the Persian “hashshashin,” eater of hashish. Who was the first assassin in history?This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Go to https://betterhelp.com/DUBIOUS for 10% off your first month of therapy and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help. We're talking about the attempted killing of Salman Rushdie by Hadi Matar, a New Jersey man obsessed with the Ayatollah Khomeini's Fatwa issued to encourage Rushdie's assassination back in the 1980s after the publication of Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. Please become a patron if you like our content, you'll get all of our public episodes ad-free. 1 Fatwas are mostly pretty silly, there are only three recent ones dealing with a person: one in the 1990s was issued for secular Egyptian writer Farag Foda who was murdered in 1992, one was issued in the early 2000s urging the assassination of Libyan president Muhammar al-Gaddafi, and the third for Salman Rushdie in 1989. Rushdie lived with a permanent security presence away from the public eye for a decade due to the threat of violence against him. The term assassin originated with Hassan as-Sabbah, an 11th century Shia revolutionary who seized Alamut castle and the surrounding region without killing soul... by disguising himself as a teacher and gaining the confidence of the castle's guards and diplomats while the ruler of the region was away. With co-conspirators in hand Hassan took control of the castle and founded both one of the medieval world's great libraries and centers of learning, as well as a school for hired killers. The word itself either came from the Persian word "eaters of hashish" or "hashashin" (because anyone who would kill a man who he had spent years befriending only to be killed by guards moments later must be high), or "hassa", the Arabic word for "killing a large population of people." Whichever was the true origin, the prevalence of the word in English comes from Shakespeare, who also used the word in Macbeth to describe the act of killing a king for profit and ambition. We finish by discussing a great article about the state of modern discourse by Kenan Malik printed in the Guardian in 2018, as well as quotes from Rushdie himself and the great fictionalized version of Hassan as-Sabbah's story written by Vladimir Bartol in 1938: the novel Alamut. 2, 3 Episode #DubiMeter = 8 1. Ray Sanchez, Adam Thomas, Kristina Sgueglia, Samantha Beech, Paul P. Murphy, and Lauren Said-Moorhouse. Authorities identify suspect who attacked author Salman Rushdie at western New York event. CNN. August 2022. ⇤2. Kenan Malik. The Satanic Verses sowed the seeds of rifts that have grown ever wider. The Guardian. September 2018. ⇤3. DJ Grothe. Salman Rushdie – Secular Values, Human Rights and Islamism. Point of Inquiry. October 2006. ⇤

The Ramayana is not one book, but a living text with countless versions across languages, each reflecting the values of its time and place. Arshia Sattar joins Amit Varma to share her insights from decades of study. Also discussed: the art of translation -- and our search for dharma. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out 1. Arshia Sattar on Amazon, Open and Wikipedia. 2. Valmiki's Ramayana -- Translated by Arshia Sattar. 3. Maryada: Searching for Dharma in the Ramayana -- Arshia Sattar. 4. Lost Loves: Exploring Rama's Anguish -- Arshia Sattar. 5. AK Ramanujan on Amazon and Wikipedia. 6. Wendy Doniger on Amazon and Wikipedia. 7. Alf Hiltebeitel on Amazon and Wikipedia. 8. 300 Ramayanas — AK Ramanujan. 9. On Hinduism and The Hindus — Wendy Doniger. 10. Yuganta — Irawati Karve. 11. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 12. The Loneliness of the Indian Man — Episode 303 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Taneja). 13. 'I Have a Dream' (video) (transcript) -- Martin Luther King. 14. Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002? — Harsh Mander. 15. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 14. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul. 15. The Shah Bano case, the Sati at Deorala and the banning of Satanic Verses. 16. 1968: The Year that Rocked the World -- Mark Kurlanksy. 17. The Rooted Cosmopolitanism of Sugata Srinivasaraju — Episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen. 18. Girish Karnad on Amazon and Wikipedia. 19. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 20. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan. 21. Early Indians — Episode 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph). 22. Early Indians — Tony Joseph. 23. Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich. 24. Nissim Ezekiel on Amazon, Wikipedia and All Poetry. 25. The Seven Basic Plots — Christopher Booker. 26. The Long Road From Neeyat to Neeti -- Episode 313 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S Jaitley). 27. Sansar Se Bhage Phirte Ho — Song from Chitralekha with lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi. 28. Episodes of the Seen and the Unseen on Mughal history with Ira Mukhoty, Parvati Sharma, Rana Safvi and Manimugdha Sharma. 29. Tales from the Kathasaritsagara -- Somadeva (translated by Arshia Sattar). 30. The Second Game of Dice -- Amit Varma. 31. Range Rover -- The archives of Amit Varma's column on poker for the Economic Times. 32. Critical Theory and Structuralism. 33. The Missing Queen -- Samhita Arni. 34. Ramcharitmanas (Hindi) (English) (Wikipedia) -- Tulsidas. 35. Krittivasi Ramayan (Bengali) (Wikipedia) -- Krittibas Ojha. 36. The Kamba Ramayana -- Translated by PS Sundaram. 37. The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer. 38. David Shulman on Amazon and Wikipedia. 39. Narendra Modi takes a Great Leap Backwards — Amit Varma (on demonetisation). 40. Bimal Krishna Matilal on Amazon and Wikipedia. 41. Dharma: Dimensions of Asian Spirituality -- Alf Hiltebeitel. 42. Understanding Gandhi. Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 43. Understanding Gandhi. Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 44. The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology -- Wendy Doniger. 45. Raja Ravi Varma. 46. Shoodhra Tapasvi -- Kuvempu. 47. Ludwig Wittgenstein on Amazon, Wikipedia, Britannica and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 48. The Art of Translation — Episode 168 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arunava Sinha). 49. The Life and Times of Shanta Gokhale — Episode 311 of The Seen and the Unseen. 50. The Life and Times of Jerry Pinto -- Episode 314 of The Seen and the Unseen. 51. RRR -- SS Rajamouli. 52. The Girish Karnad Podcasts: The Rover Has No Fear of Memories -- An oral history enabled by Arshia Sattar and Anmol Tikoo. 53. This Life At Play: Memoirs -- Girish Karnad. 54. Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis. 55. Elena Ferrante on Amazon. 56. The Door -- Magda Szabó. 57. The Mahabaharata -- Peter Brook. 58. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, That Obscure Object of Desire — Luis Buñuel. 59. The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Philip Kaufman. 60. The Line -- An Apple Original podcast. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘Searching for Dharma' by Simahina.

Thirty years ago, Salman Rushdie made a surprise appearance at a Canadian PEN fundraiser, while still in hiding because of the fatwa issued against him for his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses. Getting Rushdie to Toronto was an enormous undertaking and Writers & Company was one of few Canadian media outlets granted access to Rushdie before the event. As Rushdie continues his recovery from injuries sustained in an attack earlier this year, Writers & Company revisits conversations with Rushdie in 1992 and 2015 in a special tribute episode.

We have expressed a desire to keep The Book Case non-political. But there is one issue we feel should not be a source of contention - and that is book banning and book challenges. We have been looking for a relatively safe way to approach the issue and think we've found it in a book by Amy Serig King entitled Attack of the Black Rectangles. The "black rectangles" to which she refers are those black stripes that represent redactions of language. Amy writes for young people— target audience probably 11 to 16. But this book reads well for adults as well and addresses an important subject. It is a fictionalized account of an actual book redaction that her son discovered in a school assigned novel about the Holocaust. Amy argues, persuasively we feel, that young people don't need this kind of ‘protection' and that it's a slippery slope from redactions to actual book bans. She has both a lovely book and a powerful argument. Afterwards we talk with Jonathan Friedman of PEN America who has written a thorough report about how the number of book challenges and bans are growing across the United States at an alarming rate. Books mentioned in the podcast: Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King (A.S. King) Me and Marvin Gardens By Amy Sarig King (A.S. King) The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Dig by Amy Sarig King (A. S. King) Ask the Passengers by Amy Sarig King (A. S. King) Reality Boy by Amy Sarig King (A. S. King) Everybody Sees the Ants by Amy Sarig King (A. S. King) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Earlier this month, British-Indian author Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked at an event in upstate New York. In 1989, Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses so enraged Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini that he issued a global kill-order, or fatwa, on the author, his editors, and publishers.    Though Khomeini died later that year, fatwas cannot be revoked posthumously. So, Rushdie went into hiding, appearing later only under heavy security. Eventually, many in the West simply forgot about it.  Shia extremists did not.   This tell us something about how differently the secular West and radical Islam sees the world, and how short our cultural memory is compared with theirs. And, at stake is more than a contest of memory. In the Western world, we've been secularized to think of religion as a privatized matter of preference. We therefore underestimate the power that religious convictions wield, including the power that our secular religious convictions hold over our own hearts, minds, and culture.   All of which is an opportunity for Christians to show and live a better way, one that sees God, history, people, and the world so differently. 

Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, has spent decades in hiding as radical Muslims have hunted and killed many others involved with the controversial novel. Recently, he reemerged in New York, only to be stabbed near-fatally as he took the stage. But are others wrong to draw parallels between the rhetoric used by his attackers and the rhetoric we see increasingly in the West?Plus, Substack writer Sam Thielman had his contract unfairly terminated, but Jesse uncovers events in his past that suggest he may not be quite as fair to others. Then, enjoy the chaos as internet insanity bleeds over into the opera scene once again, this time with an abolitionist twist.Salman RushdieThe attack on Rushdiehttps://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/us/salman-rushdie-attack-monday/index.htmlBari Weiss’s history of the fatwa against himJesse’s review of Helen Joyce’s bookhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/trans-helen-joyce.htmlThe MacLachlan assaulthttps://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2017/09/trans-rights-terfs-and-a-bruised-60-year-old-what-happened-at-speakers-cornerThe outcome of the casehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5613057/Model-punched-feminist-smashed-120-camera-violent-brawl-walks-free-court.htmlThe Julie Bindel casehttps://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/feminist-speaker-julie-bindel-attacked-transgender-person-edinburgh-university-after-talk-545841Sam ThielmanAckerman’s post mildly criticizing Substack (note Thielman credit)https://foreverwars.ghost.io/forever-wars-off-substack-on-ghost/Thielman details how Substack punished him for editing the posthttps://foreverwars.ghost.io/substack-retaliates-against-forever-wars-editor/Substack backpedalsOur episode on the Gist controversyPesca’s suspensionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/business/media/slate-mike-pesca-suspended.htmlThielman isn’t happy how things turned outJesse’s responseThielman digs himself deeper re: Donald MacNeil Jr.Sam’s devastating response, a masterpiece of polemics thoroughly discrediting Jesse and dishonoring his descendants for centuries to comeTheater BlowupPlaywrights Ensemble resigns collectivelyhttps://medium.com/@ofvictorygardensplaywrights/letter-from-the-playwrights-of-victory-gardens-theater-fcbd3e1d1840A list of demands for white american theater, invoking, of all things, the 13th Amendmenthttps://www.weseeyouwat.com/The results of the protest outside the theaterhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/theater/ken-matt-martin-victory-gardens.htmlThe internal conflict at Victory Gardenshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/theater/victory-gardens-theater-chicago.html?smtyp=curKen-Matt’s statementhttp://www.kenmatt.com/blog/2022/7/18/for-those-doing-the-workImage: People listen as writers gather to read selected works of British author Salman Rushdie, one week after he was stabbed while on stage, during a rally to show solidarity for free expression outside the New York Public Library in New York City on August 19, 2022. - Hadi Matar has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges after being accused of stabbing British author Salman Rushdie multiple times on stage during a literary event at the Chautauqua Institution. The severely injured author is recovering well according to family and friends, after the assault left him with multiple stab wounds on August 12, 2022. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast. Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server! — The attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on free expression. (1:38) (Note: Read this for more background on Rushdie and why The Satanic Verses is controversial.) — An evangelical pastor demonized "wokeism" after making up his own definition of the word. (14:52)  — The Fargo School Board in North Dakota nixed the Pledge of Allegiance at meetings… then reversed course after threats. (22:28) — A Missouri pastor apologized after a sermon clip of him demanding a luxury watch from his congregation went viral. (32:09) — A Texas school district banned the Bible. Oops. (39:25) — The Department of Justice is investigating the Southern Baptist Convention. (48:52) — Evangelist Beth Moore's crush on Jesus infuriated Southern Baptist men. (54:30) — Atheists won a settlement against Arkansas State Sen. Jason Rapert. (1:02:20)

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It's been one year since the abrupt and chaotic fall of the Afghan capital, Kabul. The speed with which the Taliban took over shocked many people. And, author Salman Rushdie continues to recover after an attack on his life last week. Iran's former Supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a decree in 1989 calling for Rushdie's death, following the publication of his book, “Satanic Verses.” How is Rushdie and this case viewed today in Iran? Also, conservationists fight back with artificial intelligence to save wild tigers from extinction.

If the contents of a 546-page book can get one man murdered, two more seriously injured and its author forced into hiding for nine years, you can be confident of its subject: religion. But despite its reputation, ‘The Satanic Verses' isn't a page-by-page deconstruction of Islam. It's a work of fiction; one that prompted the leader of Iran to call for a worldwide manhunt of anyone involved in its publication.  So how did one man's literary skill get another man literally killed? Classic merch is out now: redhandedshop.com Become a patron: Patreon Order a copy of the book here (US & Canada): Order on Wellesley Books Order on Amazon.com Order a copy of the book here (UK, Ireland, Europe, NZ, Aus): Order on Amazon.co.uk Order on Foyles Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Visit our website: Website Contact us: Contact Sources: Head to Head episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5wclhYcWaA  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9832674/  https://thehoya.com/the-satanic-verses-a-misunderstood-masterpiece-about-identity-metamorphosis/  https://www.englishpen.org/posts/campaigns/salman-rushdie-condemns-attack-on-charlie-hebdo/  https://socialistworker.co.uk/features/islamophobia-free-speech-and-salman-rushdie-s-the-satanic-verses/  https://aeon.co/essays/can-there-ever-be-another-novel-like-the-satanic-verses  https://theconversation.com/thirty-years-on-why-the-satanic-verses-remains-so-controversial-102321  https://www.theweek.co.uk/99921/why-was-the-satanic-verses-so-controversial  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilbNgCWgnwE  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/01/i-guess-im-having-a-go-at-killing-it-salman-rushdie-to-bypass-print-and-publish-next-book-on-substack  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/15/salman-rushdie-i-am-stupidly-optimistic-it-got-me-through-those-bad-years  https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2019/02/student-reading-list-salman-rushdie-fatwa/  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19600879  https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/04/salman-rushdie-fatwa-satanic-verses https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/world/europe/norway-satanic-verses.html  https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/02/14/the-chilling-legacy-of-the-rushdie-affair/  https://www.irishtimes.com/news/rushdie-affair-is-finished-1.196216  https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-15-1-c-blasphemy-salman-rushdie-and-freedom-of-expression  https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-rushdie-affair-salman-rushdie-cat-stevens/  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47225607  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/2/19/the-salman-rushdie-affair-thirty-years-and-a-novelist-later  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-13-mn-1822-story.html  https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/sep/28/andres-serrano-piss-christ-new-york