Translation of "Satanic verses" in German

The Satanic Verses, however, remain a part of the Quran to this day.

The Satanic Verses was published in September 1988.

The Satanic Verses became a weapon in that conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The controversy over The Satanic Verses was primarily a political, not religious, conflict.

Blasphemy became a global concern in the late 1980’s when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa calling for the assassination of the writer Salman Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses.

In 1989 he was a key leader of protests against Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses.

During the campaign, in an interview with NRC Handelsblad, Rabbae expressed understanding for people who wanted the book The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie banned.

According to the standard Shiite opinion, the death penalty for defectors cannot be rescinded on the basis of their repentance.[33] This is one of the reasons why Salman Rushdie’s death sentence, which was issued by the leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran Ayatollah Khomeini in the form of a Fatwa (legal opinion) on 14 February, 1989, in response to Rushdie’s book Satanic Verses, could not be rescinded after Rushdie’s public repentance and apology for his writing.

While some of this debate followed battle lines drawn in the 1980s during the controversy surrounding The Satanic Verses, this time it was even more symbolic for many because it was about France.

One can look at the case of Salman Rushdie who was targeted for assassination by a fatwa backed by the Iranian clericalist regime for writing the mildly impious, and quite funny, The Satanic Verses in 1988.

They had expressed their solidarity with Rushdie by starting their presentations in Jaipur with reading from the Satanic Verses.

Yet, every few years the world gets tired from watching the same old inflammatory scene play out again and again. From Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses in 1989 and the Danish cartoons in 2005, to the burning of the Qur’an by a nutty Florida pastor in 2010 and the release of this highly offensive movie just days ago.

The Satanic Verses are still banned, their author remains a persona non grata – at least in election times.

As in the controversy over the Danish cartoons, it was politics, not religion, that transformed The Satanic Verses into a worldwide event of historic proportions.

Salman Rushdie is presented as an example of the insidiousness of Jewish calumny. It will be recalled that in 1989 the Iranian head of state Khomeini called on Muslims throughout the world to kill the Indian author, since he was supposed to have insulted Islam in his book The Satanic Verses.

According to Nasrallah, the fact that the film was made available online makes the defamation more serious than similar events in the past, including the release of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (Nasrallah had praise for the fatwa issued by Imam Khomeini against the author of the book, arguing that it stopped this kind of "aggression" for many years).

Their words of seduction push you into rapidly buying these satanic verses, these scrawls that they call christian books.

As the Islamic students on his campus want to burn Salman Rushdie´s “Satanic Verses”, Shahid has to show his colours.

Ten years ago, when I last addressed a Eurozine conference, the question had a certain academic quality to it, the controversy over The Satanic Verses notwithstanding.

A group of women and men in Sivas stood in honour before the building of a former hotel, where in 1993 37 men, predominantly members of the Alawite minority, lost their lives in a fire that was started by Islamists protesting the presence inside of a translator of Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses".