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Article: Authors, note: Avoid other guy's religion
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 19, 1989
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Unconventional interpretations of faith repeatedly prove to be
hazardous undertakings, as author Salman Rushdie discovered.
The Indian-born, Moslem-raised and British-educated writer today
finds his life threatened and his book, The Satanic Verses, banned in
a minimum of five countries and burned in at least one.
Moslems condemn the book as blaspheming Islam's founder, the
Prophet Mohammed, and ridiculing the faith by using Mohammed's name
in a profane way and referring to his wives as prostitutes.
"He takes the most revered persons in all of Islam and uses
filthy language against them," said Mohammed Kaiserhuddin, president
of the Muslim Community Center on the North Side.
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