Talk:The Satanic Verses

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I cannot edit the article because it is protected. Please make this change in the timeline, which gives the important fact that the banning of the book was spearheaded by the eminent politician Shahabuddin:

Replace: October 5, 1988: India bans the novel's importation.

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  • October 5, 1988: India bans the novel's importation, after Indian parliamentarian Syed Shahabuddin petitioned the government of Rajiv Gandhi to ban the book.[1][2][3] In 1993 Syed Shahabuddin tried unsuccessfully to ban another book (Ram Swarup's "Hindu View of Christianity and Islam").[4][5]

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  1. ^ "Being God's Postman Is No Fun, Yaar": Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Srinivas Aravamudan.Diacritics, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer, 1989), pp. 3-20
  2. ^ Postmodernist Perceptions of Islam: Observing the Observer. Akbar S. Ahmed. Asian Survey, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Mar., 1991), pp. 213-231
  3. ^ Shahabuddin, Syed. “You did this with satanic forethought, Mr. Rushdie.” Times of India. 13 October 1988.
  4. ^ Arun Shourie: How should we respond? In The Observer of Business and Politics, New Delhi, 26 November 1993, also published in many other Indian newspapers and periodicals and reprinted in Sita Ram Goel (ed.): Freedom of Expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy, 1998 ISBN 81-85990-55-7. [1]
  5. ^ Statement by Indian intellectuals on Syed Shahabuddin's attempt to make the authorities impose a ban on the book Hindu View of Christianity and Islam by Ram Swarup, Delhi, 18 November. Reprinted in Sita Ram Goel (ed.): Freedom of Expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy 1998 ISBN 81-85990-55-7 [2]

Cat Stevens

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Cat Stevens said at one point that Salman Rushdie should be killed because of this book. I'll try to find the quote and put it in. It's a legitamate quote, so don't erase it when I put it in.