Twenty Years on: internalising the fatwa
von Kenan Malik (Link: Spiked)
Zwanzig Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung des Romans Die Satanischen Verse von Salman Rushdie und der durch Ayatollah Khomeini ausgesprochenen Fatwa, die im Westen zu einer ersten hitzig geführten Debatte über den „Clash der Zivilisationen“ gesorgt hat, ist heute die Angst vor Publikationen, die die islamische Welt provozieren könnten, größer denn je, so Kenan Malik, Autor des 2009 erscheinenden Buches From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy (Atlantic Books).
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In 1989 even the Ayatollah’s death sentence could not stop the publication of The Satanic Verses. Rushdie was forced into hiding for almost a decade. Translators and publishers were killed, bookshops bombed and Penguin staff forced to wear bomb-proof vests. Yet Penguin never wavered in its commitment to keep it published. Today, all it takes for a publisher to run for cover is a letter from an outraged academic. In the 20 years between the publication of The Satanic Verses and the withdrawal of The Jewel of Medina, the fatwa has in effect become internalised.
