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                 The following quotes of the article by Koenraad Erst sum up the topic of the article:


"Salman Rushdie's name has become a household word symbolizing the victims of Islamist persecution. Nine years after Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced the edict sentencing Rushdie to death for having written The Satanic Verses, a magical-realist novel, the Indo-British writer still cannot move about in safety."

"The Rushdie affair is important for highlighting a much larger phenomenon: the prevalence of Islamist terror against freethinkers. The affair itself has apparently acted as a catalyst, for the frequency of attacks on dissidents in the Muslim world has increased considerably from the time of Khomeini's edict. In addition, pressure in the West has also made it difficult for critics of Islam to speak their minds openly."

        -    Koenraad Erst"The Rushdie Rules - Middle East Quarterly", published in Middle East Quarterly in June of 1998, visited in October 2008.

              Read full article here            


        The next article is a rumination of the writer on Rushdie's non-fiction after reading "Step across this line":

        "In an age of religious fanatics, patriotic zealots and self-righteous leftists, Salman Rushdie champions free thinking and fun."

        -    Michelle Goldberg, "A beacon of sanity - Salon.com", published in Salon.com  in October 1st of 2002, visited in October 2008.

              Read full article here

          In the next article, Sunny Singh expresses her opinion on Rushdie's knighthood:


"Salman Rushdie's greatest achievement was to blast open the hallowed portals of writing in English for a whole generation of writers from the former colonies. And he did that to the sound of joyous - albeit at times, sly - laughter, with luminous prose that thrilled and delighted. If he never puts down a single word on paper ever again, his oeuvre is worthy of respect. For that alone, his knighthood (and any other honour) is well deserved."


 -    Sunny Singh, "Onward, Sir Salman: In support of kinghthood for luminous prose", published in sunnysinghonline.blogspot.com in June 19th 2007, visited in October 2008.

             Read full article in English here     (Original article)

             Read full article in Spanish here    ("El Caballero Rushdie · ELPAÍS.com", translated by M.L. Rodríguez Tapia, published in "El País" in June 29th 2007, visited in October 2008)

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