http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/02/the-satanic-verses-at-20/ for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 18:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/02/the-satanic-verses-at-20/#comment-10920 Law and Media Round Up – 23 January 2012 « Inforrm's Blog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:01:36 +0000 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=1610#comment-10920 [...] as well as recent developments in privacy law. It also provides a detailed history of the Satanic Verses affair in 1988, which was back in the news last week, with reports that Salman Rushdie has cancelled his [...]

]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/02/the-satanic-verses-at-20/#comment-10795 India must choose to defend free speech | Index on Censorship Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:20:45 +0000 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=1610#comment-10795 [...] controversy goes back to 1988, when Rushdie wrote the novel, The Satanic Verses. The Indian government found the book so explosive it was banned. Announcing the ban, Indian [...]

]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/02/the-satanic-verses-at-20/#comment-1154 What Should You GoSee? » Blog Archive » Index on Censorship » the Satanic Verses At 20 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:54:35 +0000 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=1610#comment-1154 [...] Did we want to live in a world where creative freedom and free expression were subject to the whims of distant clerics and those who wanted to burn books? Or did we want to stand by those hard-won freedoms that underpinned an open …Continue [...]

]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/02/the-satanic-verses-at-20/#comment-1153 cearta.ie » The Rushdie fatwa 20 years later Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:43:09 +0000 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=1610#comment-1153 [...] Wheatcroft on Reflections on a fatwa in the International Herald Tribune Lisa Appignanesi on The Satanic Verses at 20 at Index on Censorship; and listen to her here on the Guardian website Bernard-Henri Lévy on [...]

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