{"id":12280,"date":"2010-06-19T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=12280"},"modified":"2010-06-19T00:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T04:00:53","slug":"salman-rushdie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/19\/salman-rushdie\/","title":{"rendered":"Salman Rushdie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qf2eWKH-F4Y<\/p>\n<p><em><span title=\"Salman Rushdie on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos\">Salman Rushdie on <\/span><\/em><span title=\"Salman Rushdie on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos\">The Hour<\/span><em><span title=\"Salman Rushdie on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos\"> with George Stromboulopoulos <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salman_Rushdie\" target=\"_blank\">Salman Rushdie<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (born 1947).\u00a0 Rushdie, of course, was subjected to a death sentence by the Iranian Supreme Ayatollah Khomeini on February 14th, 1989 for his novel <em>The Satanic Verses<\/em>.\u00a0 Frye makes reference to it in his last posthumously published work, <em>The Double Vision<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am, of course, isolating only one element in Christianity, but cruelty, terror, intolerance, and hatred within any religion always mean that God has been replaced by the devil, and such things are always accompanied by a false kind of literalism.\u00a0 At present some other religions, notably Islam, are even less reassuring than our own.\u00a0 As Marxist and American imperialisms decline, the Muslim world is emerging as the chief threat to world peace, and the spark-plug of its intransigence, so to speak, is its fundamentalism or false literalism of belief.\u00a0 The same principle of demonic perversion applies here: when Khomeini gave the order to have Salman Rushdie murdered, he was turning the whole of the Koran into Satanic verses.\u00a0 In our own culture, Margaret Atwood&#8217;s <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em> depicts a future New England in which a reactionary religious movement has brought back the hysteria, bigotry, and sexual sadism of seventeenth-century Puritanism.\u00a0 Such a development may seem unlikely just now, but the potential is all there.\u00a0 (<em>CW<\/em> 4, 177-8)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Twenty years later, the potential only seems more potent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qf2eWKH-F4Y Salman Rushdie on The Hour with George Stromboulopoulos Today is Salman Rushdie&#8216;s birthday (born 1947).\u00a0 Rushdie, of course, was subjected to a death sentence by the Iranian Supreme Ayatollah Khomeini on February 14th, 1989 for his novel The Satanic Verses.\u00a0 Frye makes reference to it in his last posthumously published work, The Double Vision. 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