LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Salman Rushdie fatwa

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

16 Feb 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:19

Description

Paul Woodley reports on Salman Rushdie’s decision not to go on an American book promotion tour after having a price put on his head by Muslim leaders over the blasphemy to Islam in his book The Satanic Verses; and on the bomb threats sent to his American publishers Viking Penguin and feelings of US Muslims. Interviews with Professor Amina Sombol, Washington’s Georgetown University; Professor Mohamed Safar; worker in Viking Penguin office building; bookseller, on controversy causing rise in sales.

Contributors

Paul Woodley; Amina Sombol; Mohamed Safar

Keywords

Books; Authors; USA; Iran; Ayatollah Khomeini; Freedom of expression; Novelists; Islam; Bombs; Muslims; Salman Rushdie; Islamic law; Ruhollah Khomeini; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature; Fatwa; Viking Penguin

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