Since Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by the Ayatollah for his book, “The Satanic Verses.” I have been intrigued on how anyone could write something and have such a large group of people want you dead. The last 10 years has shown us how radical Islam is showing how cruel and brutal they can be with no compromise. In 1993, the judges for the “Booker of Bookers panel explicitly singled out Midnight’s Children for novelty of content and the three judges agreed that Rushdie's...stood above the rest….” W. L. Webb, one of the judges, summed up the thinking of the panel when he concluded that Midnight's Children "changed the way we understand a violently changing world” (Su). Rushdie’s many accomplishments and the power he has to move a whole
