Can anyone please tell me what was so blasphemous in the "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie

[chessplayer]

Was it a character in the book simply saying he doesn't believe in God
which upset people or was it something else. Can anyone please
explain.

[uNmaivirumbi]

Simple. Muslims do not want their so called prophet to be portrayed in
any manner except to adore him and hail him as the last prophet!
Indian govt being an anti-Hindu pro-Muslim pro-Christian government
banned this. Muslims, Christians and their cults are more important
than the true faiths of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains or Sikhs in India!

[Tom Reedy]

Dude, move on.

TR

[and/or www.mantra.com/jai]

In article <97983625-f113-4bfc...@cf6g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
uNmaivirumbi <tripur...@yahoo.com> posted:
>
> On Jan 22, 1:42=A0pm, chessplayer <chessplaye...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone please tell me what was so blasphemous in the "Satanic
> > Verses" by Salman Rushdie

> >
> > Was it a character in the book simply saying he doesn't believe in God
> > which upset people or was it something else. Can anyone please
> > explain.
>
> Simple. Muslims do not want their so called prophet to be portrayed in
> any manner except to adore him and hail him as the last prophet!
> Indian govt being an anti-Hindu pro-Muslim pro-Christian government
> banned this. Muslims, Christians and their cults are more important
> than the true faiths of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains or Sikhs in India!

Nice summary!

Dhanyavaad.

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

[fanabba]

Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, received a revelation which said that
it was acceptable to worship
goddesses Lat, Manat and Uzza, which the pagans of Mecca worshipped.
Muhammad
told the Meccans this fact. Later, Muhammad declared that that
revelation was from Satan, not Allah
(hence the term Satanaic Verses for the verses of the Koran that
describe that revelation)
and therefore not valid. Only Allah can be worshipped in Islam,
according to Muhammad.

That, to the best of my knowledge, is the explanation of the term
"Satanic Verses".

[fanabba]

Dhanyavaad ! the Indian government is indeed anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim
and
pro-Christian.

[and/or www.mantra.com/jai]

In article <f82b7648-b1aa-46d4...@t2g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
fanabba <fan...@aol.com> posted:

>
> On Jan 22, 1:42=A0pm, chessplayer <chessplaye...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone please tell me what was so blasphemous in the "Satanic
> > Verses" by Salman Rushdie
> >

Dhanyavaad for your explanation!

[John W Kennedy]

That is a legend of great antiquity, and there are some clues that it
might be true, though it is officially (and rightly, for all I know)
denied by the orthodox, on the grounds that Muhammed was infallible.
Rushdie introduces the story into an episode of his novel, which is
what got /him/ in trouble.

--
John W Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is
about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W.
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
-- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism"

[book...@yahoo.com]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:01:05 -0500, John W Kennedy
<jwk...@attglobal.net> wrote:

>On 2012-01-22 21:25:10 +0000, fanabba said:
>
>> On Jan 22, 1:42 pm, chessplayer <chessplaye...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Was it a character in the book simply saying he doesn't believe in God
>>> which upset people or was it something else. Can anyone please
>>> explain.
>>
>> Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, received a revelation which said that
>> it was acceptable to worship
>> goddesses Lat, Manat and Uzza, which the pagans of Mecca worshipped.
>> Muhammad
>> told the Meccans this fact. Later, Muhammad declared that that
>> revelation was from Satan, not Allah
>> (hence the term Satanaic Verses for the verses of the Koran that
>> describe that revelation)
>> and therefore not valid. Only Allah can be worshipped in Islam,
>> according to Muhammad.
>>
>> That, to the best of my knowledge, is the explanation of the term
>> "Satanic Verses".
>
>That is a legend of great antiquity, and there are some clues that it
>might be true, though it is officially (and rightly, for all I know)
>denied by the orthodox, on the grounds that Muhammed was infallible.
>Rushdie introduces the story into an episode of his novel, which is
>what got /him/ in trouble.

At http://www.borrowers.uga.edu/cocoon/borrowers/request?id=781652
labeled a "Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation", I find the
following description of Rushdi's "appropriation of Shakespeare".

(quote)
A part of Rushdie's East, West short story collection, "Yorick" uses a
postmodern narrative to call attention to Prince Hamlet's childhood
and his relationship with the court jester. The Moor's Last Sigh is a
novel about the cultural, national, political, historical, and even
geneological identity of its narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, known as
the "Moor." In his efforts to make sense of his present, the Moor
relates his family history going back nearly four generations. Set
primarily in Bombay and Cochin, India, the book's intertextual,
postmodern narrative suggests that cultural purity is a fictional
construct. Juxtaposing "Yorick" with The Moor's Last Sigh emphasizes
the main thrust of this essay, which is to through his appropriation
of Shakespeare.
(unquote)

[Myself Mallu, Yourself?]

Wow! Poochie, you typed something from your "knowledge bank" (did not
know that a moron like you actually had any knowledge). Heck, you did
this all without a "dhanyavaad" or without references to some jihadi
websites. What gives? Running a fever today? Or did a mule kick you in
the ass, thus getting some circulation to your brain?

--
VB, Ubetjotushy
'ome=shanty

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"Jade Muckeraj" aka "The Old Cow of Hawaii" <char...@fraudsrus.com>
tries her best to pretend she is a Hindu -- cutting and pasting, and
even doctoring what others post/write about Hindus/Hinduism on the
internet, deliberately pidginizing Sanskrit and providing wrong
translations, inventing brand new books in the Mahabharat (reducing it
to Muckabharat), stalking and abusing people who disagree with her by
hijacking their posts, and then cuts and pastes about Hindu ethics and
moans self-righteously about honesty -- and succeeds spectacularly in
convincing all, except other jihadi loons, that she is not a Hindu.
She is in fact a creepy jihadi loon, who thinks she owns the newsgroup
s.c.indian, and has absolutely no problem slandering anyone. As a
Indian citizen supposedly, she meddles in US political issues, and
advocates civil war in India.