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65-year-old Rushdie, who had incurred the wrath of Muslims worldwide due to his novel 'The Satanic Verses', is set to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival this month end.
"Indian government should cancel his visa as Rushdie had annoyed the religious sentiments of Muslims in the past,"
Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani, the Vice Chancellor of Darul uloom, said in a release.
The government should take into account the feelings of Muslims against Rushdie, he stressed.
Rushdie's novel'The Satanic Verses', which was banned by India, had sparked outrage in the Muslim world, including a fatwa against him by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on February 14, 1989.
The Indian-origin Rushdie had earlier visited the literary extravaganza in the Pink city in 2007.
On January 21, Rushdie along with authors Rita Kothari and Tarun Tejpal is slated to discuss the nuances of English with noted writer Ira Pande on the topic'Inglish, Amlish, Hinglish: The chutnification of English'.
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and I mean our atrocious neighbour Pornistan. While "Satanic Verses" is an awful novel (I have read it, in the US--and I say this due to its prosodic style, which is very hard to understand), it is notable that Dan Brown's novels are still sold in the US (which supposedly has Christian majority). And note that in the case of Brown, Christians do call for boycott when his books are fist released--but NEVER do they ask that he be denied entry into a country nearly a quarter century after, AND I also haven't seen any demands for Brown's head yet! Nomani should go to Pornistan or Iran without delay, and NEVER return to India!
Rushdie is right, the darkest faith on earth, that is Islam remember !! I pray that Islam should be purged perpetually, every single Muslim gene should be wiped out! Death to Islam!
Mr Rushdie is a world reputed author of Indian origin admired by many cutting accross the nationalities & religion. This is absolutely unreasonable to cancel his Indian Visa specially when we are celeberating our 10th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas & have granted voting rights to NRI. How can the government even think withdrawing the PIO status of Mr Salman Rushdie . Such a famous writer need to be recognised and awarded by India instead of playing vote bank politics and insulting a genius son of India.
By the way, can anyone tell me how many people have read the 'Satanic verses' in India, Pakistan and Iran? And how many ( of those readers only) have found it so offensive that they think it needed to be banned? And also how many (of such people only) think that an author of such a work needs to be banned?
Deband should educate itself and also take note India is not Iran or Pakistan. If Deoband has any issues it is free to go to Pakistan and settle down. Freedom of speech is granted in Indian constitution and with the very right only even Deoband exists in India.
Well said. Although I think in India the so-called freedom of expression is subject to the whims and fancies of the mobs that rule any given issue.
When M.F. Hussain painted India and Sita. He was kicked out of India by communal forces, stating it is bad for Hindus. Now when it comes to Muslims, there sentiments are useless. Rushdie is bad person Yesterday he insulted Islam for Money, may be tomorrow he will write against Gita and Mahabharata. Jago India Jago.