Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie | Book Review
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- The '80s called and they want their controversy back. Yes, this book resulted in a fatwa against the author. Yep, it's old. But what is it actually about? Let's assume I know.
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Everybody has freedom to criticize religion or ideas, and those who try to indulge in violence and arson should be dealt with iron hand. Long live Salman Rushdie
A junior high book report on a pretentiously written piece of fiction which NOBODY deserves to be assaulted for.
The man who hit Rushdie deserves the full force of the law to come down on him.
Thank you!!!!! You cleared up a lot of my questions, that I have not been able to find answers to because the overwhelming political controversy that tends to bury simple inquiry.
Those days people loved to read and gave high esteem to writers and Poets.
I stopped once you got into the synopsis. I want to go into this blindly, but I'm nosey too!! I didn't know about the controversy, your explanation of it is fabulous. That's very intriguing how some of it can be from the dark side.
I actually really enjoyed it, but it does drag through the middle.
Pakistan is not in the Middle East. Its in South Asia.
May not be geographically but ideologically more than that
@@shgrao71 no, just no
@@shgrao71 no
Ideology they alied to arab .
Divided by border united by terrorism
not old, anymore.
the controversy continues...
This book was not even his best work, and it got ppl mad, imagine what his good work would've done
He become new type of veggy mate?
He become new type of veggy mate?
Heh, I'm one of those people who thinks Midnight's Children is great but who wasn't terribly impressed by this one. I remember wanting to enjoy this one more than I did, but it's also been more than 20 years since I've read it, and maybe I'd have a different lens to view it through now.
I'm curious about what elements of his writing you consider Middle Eastern, because I would call his cultural and geographic focus very much a merging of South Asian and European (aside from "Two Years...", but even then I think the cultural framework is still not really Middle Eastern even if the inspiration there is).
It's probably my poor geography skills around Asia as a continent. Specifically, I have always considered India/Pakistan etc as Middle East when they really are S. Asian. I don't know why I've always done that, but I need to stop it.
Props for the Terry Pratchett in the bookshelf!
i was so beyond excited to read this book it was a bit of a hassle trying to get my hands on it as its still banned but im a 100 pages in and sadly i don't like his style of writing i don't know if its actually difficult or its just me, but it feels very rambley and i generally cannot get behind that manner of writing it just doesn't appeal to me and makes it a difficult read and maybe im a little frustrated at it hahah maybe in a few years ill be able to but not today
Same. Cant understand
Islam='Indian Religion'
Yes we have around 15% of our religion as Muslim but to call Islam Indian is very controversial to say the least. It would be same as saying Tibetans are Chinese.
Islam is a desert dwellers religion.
As another scholar Al-Rassooli ( ex-muslim) points out ' In which, Allah only admonished Mohammed and made light banter of his enormous sin. Neither satan, Gabriel nor Allah were involved: it was all Mohammad at his very best: Deceitful, Wily, Beguiling and very much in control of his mostly very superstitious, Ignorant, fearfu;, Illiterate and totally obidient flock'. In the days of Science, Islam says Earth is flat. need more ?
Hey, thanks for this review. I'll definitely be reading this one. Midnight Children, as well.
I've read, both, the Bible and the Quran. (The Quran only to see what Muslims actually believe.) What's interesting is that Muslims claim that Muhammad is infallible, yet he, quite literally, breaks all 10 of God's commandments. He lies, steals, murders, commits adultery, etc, etc, etc. If you look into how Islam was actually created, and why it was created (if you can still find the truth out there somewhere), you'll learn a lot and it will all make sense.
Also, were you aware that (in Islam) when people get married, the wife becomes the legal property of the husband? Also, if the wife dishonors her husband, or his family, it is legal for the husband to kill his wife? They call them "Honor Killings" and they happen very regularly in Muslim countries. It is also considered "honorable" to kill anybody who does not accept Islam as their faith. This is why the middle east has been a constant war zone for the past 1,400 years (since Islam was invented). It was created in 610AD by Rome.
In Muslim run countries you will be arrested for holding hands, hugging, or kissing somebody in public. Even if you're married to them. And if a woman shows her face in public you can splash sulphuric acid in her face, permanently disfiguring her, without it being considered a crime. Islam considers it the woman's fault. Same goes for rape. If a woman gets raped she is considered to be at fault, because she had to have done something to provoke it, and will typically be put to death under Sharia Law, by beheading.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
You're a very smart guy. I think I ought to follow you to learn about Islam and its culture. Have you written any book, Sir.😂
I read it in the mid nineties when I was 14 or 15 and read it as a straight novel not knowing anything about the controversy. All I remember is the characters falling from the sky, one of the characters growing horns and pooping on the floor of a cop van, the cops laugh at him and make him eat it? The "good" character grows really tall. That's it.
wow weird! me too!!!! My mum had it and I just picked it up and read it, had no clue what it was about but for some reason I enjoyed reading it.
@@neom0nk Ive read 5 or 6 Rushdie novels - enjoyed them all - the guys a great storyteller. Theres cultural issues of course and an American who doesn't know South Asian culture might totally miss the context and meaning of something - but that's to be expected - just as I'd expect a South Asian to not understand some things in an American book. I guess I'm rambling - but my point is - Rushdie's a great author - keep reading him - his masterpiece is Midnights Children - it's really good. Def read it if you haven't.
@@LeftysLefty Hey Andy! Thanks for the kind note. I've read midnights children and agree, awesome, I'm looking for my next to start, I'm bumping him to the top of my reading list of next month, what's your next favorite after midnights children? Appreciate you taking the time.
@@neom0nk You're Welcome - I always have time for a book recommend. For some reason I really like Rushdie when he writes about Kashmir so my next Rushdie favorite is Shalimar the Clown which I also enjoyed very much. Happy reading!
@@neom0nk If i may drop by, read 'JOSEPH ANTON' by SR. It is about the period in exile and i would recommend it - but it is not well written to his own standards as there is a bot of hagiography.
How to buy it mam..plz share..im searching it since a decades
I found mine at a used book store
I tried to read it. It is so abtuse i cant get beyond 2 pages. I was always curious whats wrong with it.
You will never know what is wrong with it because you have a different episode. Everything is gods for you. God is only one!!!!!
it is a very difficult read. a lot of
people who have complained
about it being so.
I don't know what the book burning was all about.
most of the protesters were illiterate and ignorant mobs
who had no clue about the
book.
i bought it 2 weeks ago i read the first chapter and i had to leave it siting on the shelf cuz it was difficult ...im a physics student im not that good in understanding such dificult language ...i read it in greek so the english version could be easier. im waching reviews to kinda motivate my self to read it after i finish the one im currently reading , The Wolf Totem
I remember it was hard to get into. The writing is definitely an adjustment and I won't say that doesn't continue - there were times I had to force myself to pick it up because of the writing and not the story. Good luck with it.
What did you think of the book ?
Plz share i wanna buy it
I tried reading it back in my early 20’s and there was a study guide I found that helps explain things as you follow along. Was difficult just like Dante’s Divine Comedy
Heisenberg , I am a retired college Physics professor . Your name reminds me of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in Physics .
I have some Muslim friends from "bohra muslim" community whose ancestors where forcefully converted to Islam. They acknowledge this that their forefathers were humiliated, raped and converted at gunpoint but they are now are afraid to take any steps back because they fear in their community in which they live now could harm them and the 2 generations who have lived in fundamental islamist environment has lost their old identity. Salman Rushdie correctly said this has been happening in the east and now i am seeing the same happening in west as well. My friends just don't want to go back to their home.
The lies here are crazy
wens the film coming out
Is he an indian author... Plz reply
Yep
I didn't find it a particularly good use of 12 hours, listening to it on Audible. I do wish to pay homage to the stamina of the narrator chosen by Audible though. He managed to narrate it very well, and somehow maintain enthusiasm throughout the whole, soul-destroying, pointless marathon.
This book is a bit like collated facebook posts from a good and an evil character. We're constantly flipping back and forth between them, then flashbacks into the past. One minute we're urged to believe that 2 folk falling from an altitude of 29000 feet can talk to each other on the way down, and also have a conversation with a woman on a magic carpet. Then we're in a village made of sand, then in London. It's a jumbled-up mess. There are moments of wit and humour, but not enough of them to justify reading the thing. Some have said that it's a bit crap and wouldn't have made much of an impression had there not been a Fatwa over it. I am inclined to agree.
The most surprising thing I found in it was a quotation from Ovid. It was refreshing to see something worthy in the book, albeit borrowed from someone else.
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What was the quote from Ovid?
There was an attack ..and mr . Rushdie lost his eye and he is fighting for is life 2022.
Thank you for telling us what the book is about .
Why don't you do a summary about the quran🤔
There are few corrections here :-
* Indians and Pakistanis are South Asians, not Middle eastern people.
* Islam is not an Indian religion, it's origin traces back to Middle East, but, there are some Indians who are Muslims, but they represent only 10-14 % of population in India. Majority of the Indians are followers of Hinduism, which is a completely different religion from Islam.
# I enjoyed watching your review, feels sad to see that you are having only few likes, and criminally low subscribers.
Anyway,
love from India 🇮🇳
Yeah, but I think in the case of Pakistan she was suffering to the Islamic world in general. But again yeah technically she was incorrect.
From my understanding India is a Hindu country and their beliefs are non violent any peaceful. whilst on the other hand you can not say anything bad about Islam otherwise there will be a fatwa for your death
Just like the author of this book.
So who are the believers and who are the killers?
@@mrpat2563 Well, Hinduism isn't that peaceful, even Hinduism has fair share of violent verses and idealogies in them, just like any other religions, it's just that Islam is way too violent compared to Hinduism, but it still doesn't make Hinduism any better.
@@apogeelord7013 so does Hinduism teach violence?
Does it teach you to hate other faiths?
Do Hindus go around forcing people to convert ?
@@mrpat2563 No, fortunately Hinduism doesn't teach violence against other faith, as far as I know, but, Hinduism teaches to oprress 70% of its followers, the lower caste folks (OBCs and Dalits).
The book is not offensive nor does it says that what's written is truth. The problem with this case is that there are a bunch who are offended by anything but are ashamed of nothing.
I found your presentation fantastic!
I'm watching this now ( Aug 2022 ) Author is on ventilator after being stabbed and unable to speak
I badly need a copy of that please can u send me
India and Pakistan are in South Asia (not the Middle East). He's from Bombay, not Kashmir. Just a few corrections.
To correct you, she said he ‘focuses’ on the Middle East.
@@Lovo369 as an example of that focus she stated that he wrote some pakistani character or whatever which woulf be incorrect as our country is not middle east. One thing I don't understand is why an Indian atheist cares so much about Pakistan to begin with.
@@thaotrinh7156 near east is actually just a different name for middle east not for the balkans.
He is a kashmiri Indian
Khomeini made this guy a super star. If it wasn't for that Fatwa, he'd be just another struggling writer.
He was already a award winning author 7 years before the publication of this novel in 1988. And his Midnight's Children already made him world famous. Maybe illiterate people, i mean the likes of Khomeini, might only have known Rushdie's talent after Satanic Verses's publication. But, we have to admit that The Khomeini idiot's fatwa literally did many goods to Rushdie too, by increasing his buyers!!
@@Faseeh626 just called me illiterate.
been called worse.
take care, pretentious jerk.
Now struggle to breathe
I read the verses and it was garbage. “Nigger, eat white man’s shit” was a choice moment in the history of literature. Why is he so celebrated?
@@thebasketz covid millions were struggling to breath rich ,poor , good , bad everyone .
I read it and parts were really good - 8 generally like reading Rushdie. But I sailed right over the parts that caused the trouble and didn't even notice them - but I'm not a Muslim so I don't have the knowledge and sensibility or context to immediately recognize the parts they didn't like l.
I grew up in the 60s - yeah Boomer-old (don't hate me) - and the big thing that people in the 60s believe in is freedom of expression. Nothing is taboo. Nothing is sacred. If someone says something and someone else gets offended - well, the fault and the onus is on the person who claims to be offended - that is a choice they are making. If you don't like what someone says, then don't listen. If you don't like what someone writes, then don't read them. Etc.,etc. It's called "no prior restraint" - anything goes as long as you don't hurt anybody. Taken to it's controversial conclusion - if you don't like abortion then don't get one. If you don't like gay marriage, then don't get gay married. Who are you or I or anyone else to tell anybody else how to run their lives. So hypocritical that the ones who fetishize "freedom" are often the same ones wanting restrictions on other people. So anyway I guess religious fundamentalists the world over are pretty much the same - and I have absolutely no interest in anything they have to say. So I'm exercising my right not to listen.
I'm going to buy this book
It sounds dead good!
Same thing too.
Same thing too.
I bought it the week the controversy started - went and found it at a used book store and they cut off the title to avoid issues lol. Has been on a myself ever since
Almost dead lol
i could never get into it; my sister finished it as said that the fatwa was justified as it is the most boring book ever written.
You know people were actually murdered over this right? I haven't read it yet so I can't weigh in on it's literary merit, but I think anyone who treats a death sentence as a reasonable literary critique is kind of missing the point of freedom of speech.
@@mayaenglish5424
I guess you don't understand the concept of irony. The comment received several thumbs-up from people who do.
@@tasmedic Oh Is that what it was? ah, I thought it was a joke that was poorly done, thanks for the irony lesson. I don't mind a dark sense of humor, I have one myself, but I do like for people to punch up instead of down. Also a good defense for a joke is for it to actually be funny, not just edgy. (also it seemed more like hyperbole than irony to me.)
She's kinda right
@@mayaenglish5424
"it's a joke, son" --Foghorn Leghorn
This was my same feeling. It was very dense with tough prose.
omg and look at us now in 2022
yes, my God. Looking up the book now. Will probably read it now. My goodness.
Free speech is one of our most important rights. Speedy recovery Sir Salman Rushdie.
This video will get more views soon due to the recent attack on Rushdie, guaranteed. Views at the time of this post: 28k.
Now views is 32k in just 11hrs of your tweet
Watching after he was just stabbed. They finally got him.
That 24 year old asshole better be in a dark prison cell on an island far away from any other prisoner.
Good news 🤣🤣
Sad
hes dead now, and im still wondering how this stories ties to islam, I know the story satanic verses well but idk how it relates.
OMG this lady needs to increase her knowledge base immensely before speaking on a platform like this about a book like this. Pakistan is in middle east???? Islam is an indian relegion???? what is wrong with canadian education system? has she ever gone to a school? i wonder.
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2:35 “he was obviously never killed”.
The days not over.
He is still alive because allah is all merciful and all forgiving, very kind
@@-rate6326 But unfortunately his followers are not😑
@@gayathryanilkumar1554 They are the follower of satan.
@@gayathryanilkumar1554 You hit that nail on the head.
@@-rate6326 yeah Allah is so peaceful
he was attacked in 2022 and nearly not lost his life.
thanks to medical science he
is alive.
Note for everyone:
Just because the controversy you read the satanic verses but not the Quran.
Give yourself a challenge just read the Quran on your own then see do you still think Rushdie is innocent.
Satanic Verses is a piece of Fiction and Quran is the word of God, so like it or not, there needs no controversy, but the muslim world doesn't agree as they believe Truth is out.
@@nvraman it is not a piece of fiction it is piece of falsehood.
If you have any Question relating to Quran or Islam do ask but mocking and belittling are something else.
Ask yourself if someone mock or belittle your parents for lie rumor will you accept that or justify/defend it.
For Muslims Quran and Muhammad(S. A. W) is more dearer to us then our parents or wealth or anything. So you can imagine why Muslims react.
That's why I say read the Quran by yourself you'll find out the truth don't go with flow of TV news.
Jazak Allah khair
@@techwithcoding641 One of the discussions in chapter on Mahound.
Question: What is the opposite of faith?
Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt.
@@nvraman
This is now reality which everyone should think about what they are doing!!
Insult LGBTQ+ = Homophobic
Insult Judaism = AntiSemitic Insult skin colour = Racist
Insult Islam become Freedom of speech.
@@nvraman You mention one of the discussion.
And Muslims are not furious for this discussion.
The title of the Book is Satanic verses which he comes up by Quran.
But in reality there is no satanic verse in Quran.
So hang on the book don’t seem to be against Islam at all so why are Muslims who hate the book clearly hadn’t read it!
Yup as a muslim i was told not to read the book by muslim scholars worldwide .. plus it was banned in my country . Its till banned where i live .. so reading it online .. i wont say i loved every page but i loved the Mahound and gibreel part in mecca .. that was brilliant surprises me how people were offended by that chapter .
Nicely said!
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also you guys love to get offended by anything, yes she said india/pakistan is in the middle east, i heard it too and moved on. doesn't make her dumb maybe a bit uninformed lol thats its. im from the middle east i didn't have to get upset that she said islam is an indian religion either
Actually people cannot say anything abt the review so they dwell on stupid things … she made a small mistake .. but that was not related to the book
Here after he has been stabbed for writing it
They almost made him a martyr, woah
A vegetable ma
@@thebasketz surprisingly Ahmad deedat the great muslim orator suffered a stroke and lost his power of speech , to swallow or expression .. he was in this vegetative state for 9 agonizing years and his condition kept deteriorating-till his death . A great fan of Deedat his condition made me think and reflect why did Allah made such a man suffer so much and took away his power to speak .. a man who had been speaking for him worldwide .. think rationally and logically .
Roses are red
Violets are blue
My wife is six
I am sixty two
- prophet mermaid
The mermaid part was epic!
@bram syamith it was around 12 13 people dont know the exact age but its around that age and its fucked up
Hey fuck u, it maybe true but at that fucking time we were allowed to marry young kids cause there was limits and laws, go get ur self educated
@@masonalex1234 m*slim logic: Islam is eternal and for all time
Also m*slim logic: oh no that was for that time, society was different then
😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@masonalex1234 and whoever allows that then he was an asshole
My friend nice review. I advice people before read this book you have to know the difference between a man and a machine. You need to do research about who you are as a human. And know who is prophet Mohammed s.a.w. and then go ahead read that book... Thank you.
It's a shame the rest of the Islamic world didn't think that. A certain fatwa comes to mind...
Allah is an angry god.
Fatwa for sure
Bullshits.... there is no controversy merely victimisation of a writer.
They finally got to him
Useless
You baby have bad taste. Rushdie was never a good writer to begin with. Most UK writers who have been writing all their lives said the same. So in order to become famous, he mocks the prophet and Islam in his piece of shit book, people get anxious to read it because they want to know what he said, and the book easily sells in Europe.
Try again. He wrote Midnight's children in 1981 and won Booker prize for it. Satanic verses got published only 1988.He was an accomplished writer way before that.
He was Pakistani British not Indian Britain0.34
How a guy born in Bombay in India and having kashmiri ethnicity be a Pakistani?????????
Very shallow review.
People who consider Islam a violent religion should study Islam thoroughly if they want to pass comment on our religion.....Only then you can realize the truth.....cuz unfortunately in this era , Real Muslims who are exactly the Muslims are like salt in the flour 😒 There is a great difference between violence and Jihad..... We love our ALLAH Pak, We love our prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)..... We can sacrifice our life for Him......
You can sacrifice ur life for him okk but don't take others life .
@@RGNPvids Others don't have any right to say bad words about our religious personalities.....
@@RGNPvids Similarly non Muslim countries don't have any right to take life of Muslims , Muslims lives are also precious just like yours...
Yes Islam is a very peaceful religion. So peaceful that it turns people Rest In Peace
@@dynamitebsb4520 If I reply in your language , don't you think that the people who can't live peacefully in world should rest in peace 😊
India doesn't follow Islam , Can you justify why it is killing thousands of kashmiris from so many years?😒
🤣 the title alone make me smiling, amazing some educated people believe this guy rusdi 🤣
Mohamad or mahmud...!!?there is a touch of ignorance in this presentation
I found that it was a disjointed and pretentious mess. I gave up after 100 pages. 100 is what I give every book in the hope that the bad ones improve.
What it had to do with I**m I have no idea, not being a M**m. Anyway, I found it bbbooorrrriiiinnggggg and would not recommend it.
A very boring read.... to me
Sort of like Jesus coming back from the dead which did not happen shroud of Turin not Jesus period
You talk too much
It’s a review u fool
It’s a book review you dingus