People Still Care About The Satanic Verses???

In 1988, I bought the book the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie as a symbolic gesture to support free speech. Then I actually tried to read the damn thing and it was impenetrable. It won a few awards, but I believe those awards were also symbolic gestures to support free speech. Here’s an abridged version of what happened, almost 35 years ago: Some Muslim clerics in Iran claimed that the book the Satanic Verses blasphemed the Prophet Muhammad. According to some adherents of the Quran, blasphemin