From Fatwa to Jihad
by Kenan Malik
From Fatwa to Jihad
by Kenan Malik
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A gripping account of how we went from burning books to bombs on buses the rushdie affair has shaped all our lives this book shows us how hanif kureishi in 1989 a thousand muslim protesters paraded through a british city displaying a copy of salman rushdies the satanic verses, before ceremoniously burning the book it was an act motivated by rage and offence as well as one calculated to shock and offend it did more than that: images of the burning book became an icon of the muslim anger printed and broadcast in dozens of countries, these images of protest announced the birth of a new world twenty years later, the questions raised by the rushdie affair – of islams relationship to the west, the meaning and value of multiculturalism, the limits of tolerance in a liberal society – have become defining issues of our time taking the ayatollah khomeinis fatwa condemning rushdie as his starting point, kenan malik examines how radical islam gained hold in muslim communities, how multiculturalism contributed to this process, and how the rushdie affair transformed the very nature of the debate on tolerance and free speech it is an original and vividly insightful account of one of the major historical punctuation marks of the last twenty-five years a thorough and highly readable history of the politics of the rushdie affair and an important intervention in the current debate on freedom of expression monica ali
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Paperback, 2nd Edition
ISBN13: 9781843548249
Atlantic, 2009
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