Path: cmcl2!cmcl2.nyu.edu!grewals From: grewals@acf2.nyu.edu (Subir Grewal) Newsgroups: alt.religion.islam,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.egyptian,soc.culture.arabic,talk.religion.misc,soc.culture.maghreb,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.saudi Subject: Re: Salman Rushdie's new book comes out Followup-To: alt.religion.islam,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.egyptian,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.indian Date: 11 Sep 1995 15:48:55 GMT Organization: New York University Lines: 39 Message-ID: <431lp7$4k1@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> References: <42lmtp$t6l@mirv.unsw.edu.au> <42nvrf$t19@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <42qdje$ph4@tin.monsanto.com> <42sflj$50u@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <42t2k4$qdj@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <42tbnr$7i7@newsflash.concordia.ca> <431hh7$b3h@tin.monsanto.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: acf2.nyu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: cmcl2 alt.religion.islam:16384 soc.culture.pakistan:105955 soc.culture.iranian:81555 soc.culture.egyptian:4539 soc.culture.arabic:48364 talk.religion.misc:221149 soc.culture.maghreb:8870 soc.culture.bangladesh:35828 soc.culture.indian:274178 alt.culture.saudi:1225 Follow-ups trimmed. Saqib Mausoof (ssmaus@musctn.monsanto.com) wrote: : Ilyess Bdira wrote: : Using the word fan was perhaps inappropriate. I have respect for Mr. : Rushdie's writing and the stance he has taken for the third world in his : numerous novels. I do believe that he had a certain responsibility as a : writer and he provoked a lot of nasty emotions among the muslims. In fact : the Sikh writer Khushawat Singh advised Pelican that publishing "Satanic : Verses" would hurt the feelings of most Muslims. Incidentally, it is Khushwant Singh's comments on and review of Satanic Verses that sparked the protest from some members of the Indian muslim community, resulting in the book being banned in India. Most of the people calling for the ban had not read the book themselves, only Khushwant's review. Duh, wonder what we think of this in light of his comments on Tagore? Oh, another thing, Khushwant apparently did not say "Tagore is over-rated", but rather that Tagore's *novels* are over-rated. The thrust seemed to be that Tagore's longer prose fiction is only read because of his admittedly valuabel poetry and short prose. It seems we have a tendency to blow things out of proportion sometimes. :-) see http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/FileRoom/documents/Cases/195rushdie.html -- Subir Grewal grewals@acf2.nyu.edu Washington Square News on the WWWeb http://www.nyu.edu/pages/wsn/ ------------------------Standard disclaimer applies-------------------------- "By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. (R. Emerson)" -- Quoted from a fortune cookie program (whose author claims, "Actually, stealing IS easier.") [to which I reply, "You think it's easy for me to misconstrue all these misquotations?!?"]