![]() ![]() WRIGHT: The book was considered offensive because it portrayed the human weaknesses of the Prophet Muhammad and in some ways, in the eyes of some Muslims, questioned his credibility as the messenger of God. SUMMERS: Robin Wright, help us understand, why was this book considered offensive back in the late 1980s? One is the challenge of how do you behave when you're weak? And the other, how do you behave when you're strong? SALMAN RUSHDIE: My purpose was not to write only about Islam it was to talk about the nature of revelation and also to suggest that when a big, new idea comes into the world, it must answer two challenges. SUMMERS: The book was called "The Satanic Verses." And here's Rushdie speaking to NPR in 2012 about the controversial parts. She's covered Iran for decades, and she wrote about this case for The New Yorker. So what exactly did Salman Rushdie write that would provoke an attempt on his life more than three decades after he wrote it? Let's bring in Robin Wright. ![]() Iran has denied involvement, but a spokesman for its foreign ministry says it doesn't blame anyone for the attack except Rushdie himself and his supporters. He was repeatedly stabbed during an onstage discussion last Friday in upstate New York. Today, he is off a ventilator and slowly recovering but still in critical condition. ![]() But for the last 33 of those years, he's lived with a fatwa that called for his death, issued by the supreme leader of Iran at the time. ![]()
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