had apparently taken a moderate stance in the rushdie affair. is the director of the islamic center. was found dead with gunshot wounds to the head and the neck. of the head was killed in a similar fashion he was head of the islamic center library he said. the t.v. is full of blood lust i'm not of the hotel anymore i mean this on nameable place. there is weaponry everywhere the moment when things really changed for me was when i saw television coverage of the burning of the satanic verses but i thought of it my think of it no i was one of the most obscene images. with the state when khomeini intervened the narrative a changed that that i say what i thought of had up to that point been an argument. turned into something much more dangerous. britain's biggest bookseller withdrew the satanic verses from its 430 stores on the same day the writer stephen king called the head of the chain and gave him an ultimatum if you don't sell the satanic verses you don't sell stephen king the book was back on the shelves the next day. there was some political pr

said that rushdie had no idea the storm of the satanic verses was about to one beach. the thing is i did show it to them the book the number of people who knew who knew the world is writing about and it was quite obvious that people of conservative religious views would not like the book with their they haven't liked anything else i wrote either so that's not particularly different i felt that in many ways it was my most formally ambitious. book you know it was a book where i was pushing things father that i pushed in before and i. i like that about it. the book tells of 2 passengers on a flight to london broil and saladin fall victim to a terrorist attack. as their plane explodes and they fall from the sky the 2 protagonists are transformed into archangels of good and evil the book denounces the oppression of women intolerance and violence and questions the core tenants of the islamic faith in one seen prostitutes working in a brothel take the names of the wives of the prophet in order to boost their earnings and in a thinly veiled reference to ayatollah khomeini the

with the threat of death hanging over him rushdie changed his address 56. times during those 10 years and was the target of some 20 assassination attempts. but that's all behind him now rushdie has left england and settled in new york where he has lived for almost 20 years. 'd i was born in what was then called bombay in india in june 147 let's just say exactly 8 weeks to the day before the end of the british empire. my father used to tell this joke which i think he told slightly too many times about how i was born in 8 weeks later the british ran away a 100. things. i did not move my childhood as being very happy. and i came for work nonobservant muslim family you know but religion's really weren't a big issue you know and always nationalities so in the little neighborhood where we lived there would i would my childhood friends were of every possible religion you know they were hindu muslim sikh christian. and all of that seemed completely normal. and that sense of it of everybody else's culture being available to us. you know it was one of the great thing

rushdie was forced into hiding and survived countless attacks but he's not afraid anymore.the great writer speaks about using humor as a weapon. and the power of the painting salman rushdie. 15 minutes d.w. . each still tells my story. of the people who climbs me builds me dedicates. a lot today or. not a dummy player. please. listen closely and i will tell you about the players who built me up. the loosely downplays. i am not to dumb to play the odds my sleep days for centuries and how the company of my country through its finest our lives. until the day i merely vanished proclaim. i'm still not to dumb to tell. a fool. you may write me down in history but you have bitter twisted and. you may try me in very dirty but still night. did you want to see me broken. so live for. me in the back. there's information. from the past. this is they double the news and the top stories. the italian government says no one should enter or leave one body as part of tough new measures to try and contain the corona virus outbreak public facilities will be closed in the country's wealthiest a

let's go live now to dr archimage rushdie here's a foreign policy adviser for the iraqi parliament thank you for joining us on the program is a pleasure to have you how come iraqi authorities responded to these thoughts of actions. well actually the iraq authorities authorities talk to the 2 sides fighting each other on the iraqi to the americans and the iranian it's jeopardize the somewhat here for iraq it's also a job at times the life of iraqis let us not forget the american attacks actually killed iraqis just civilians and policemen so at the end iraq is always the victims that so i think the americans should think to assist iraq rather than to attack those camps that already have so many difficulties especially the financial different difficulties that iraq has now because of what's happened to the drops of the oil prices and at the end it's the hope that withdrawal of the iraq of the american forces from iraq it is it becomes a real hope because at the end so much between iran and the and the united states on the iraqi soil so what do you think will be said to the british and ameri

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talked up with rushdie as a foreign policy adviser to the iraqi parliament by he told us that this ongoing u.s. military presence is proving to be extremely harmful for his country. it's ties the what you're for iraq it's also a job or ties the life of iraqis but let's not forget the american attacks actually killed iraqis just civilians and policeman so i think the iraqis always are the victims i don't think the americans will withdraw it will not happen by themselves what they actually they paid trillions of dollars since 2003 it's it's not it's my thought is that there is no sense of withdraw from iraq without getting anything from iraq it can be happen if the iraqi political blocs and the iraqi people united together and say to iran and to the united states ok that's it we will not accept you what you are destroying our country you are killing our civilians so of that way i think only on that way we can change the situation in iraq. european story for you to swedish nasa's who say they would deny jobs as midwives because of their religious beliefs have failed to get their case heard by

iraq's sovereignty which has become a joke among countries in the region and around the world dr ahmed rushdie is a foreign policy advisor to the iraqi parliament he told us that this ongoing u.s. military presence is proving to be extremely harmful for his country it's jeopardize the iraq it's also a job but as the life of iraqis but let's not forget the american attacks actually killed iraqis just civilians and policeman so i think you're right it's always the victims i don't think the americans will withdraw it will not happen by themselves what they actually they paid trillions of dollars since 2003 it's it's not it's my thought is that there is no sense of withdraw from iraq without getting anything from iraq it can be happen if the iraqi political blocs and the iraqi people united together and say to iran and to the united states ok that said we will not accept you where you are destroying our country you are killing our civilians so of that way i think only on that way we can change the situation in iraq. try to keep developing several countries declared an emergency on friday in respon