Salman Rushdie reflects on 20-year-old fatwa
>> Senin, Januari 19, 2009
The unforgetable of shalman rushdy.. long journey after he created of "satanic verses", Nearly 20 years after being driven underground by a religious decree, he is now Sir Salman Rushdie, properly famous and free, yet still burdened by his status as a symbol of persecution.
The 61-year-old Rushdie said he would rather be known as an artist than as a social critic, and worried that the attacks against his religious satire, "The Satanic Verses," had obscured "the real person that I am and the actual value of the books."
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