The Satanic Verses

After the post-war consensus planning of 1945, Britain and its society took a sharp left turn from the old world ideals practiced by the previous federal administrations in Britain. From the profoundly right wing political schema present in the pre-war society to the strongly liberal left that came to power in parliament after the war, the federal landscape of modern Britain warped during the 1940’s. The foundation of a social welfare republic and the rise of the labour party created a nation…

The Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East and North Africa defines fatwas as “the legal judgement or learned interpretation that a qualified jurist (mufti) can give on issues pertaining to the shari’a (Islamic law).” Fatwas are able to be issued by anyone trained in Islamic law, and is said to have been issued in their millions since early Islam, usually concerning the various aspects of “individual life, social norms, religion, war, peace, jihad, and politics.” (Weimann 2011, 766) Fatwas can be…

Censorship Jake May Censorship is defined as the suppression or prohibition of speech, public communication, or information that may be considered objectionable, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, institutions or media. When a creator or author censors their own works or speech, it is self-censorship. Censorship can be direct or in some cases indirect, it is then referred to as soft censorship. This occurs in many…

great it is. Also, he is saying that now it might be too late to express these opinions and thoughts they’ve already had because they might not be relevant anymore. 1B. Salman Rushdie has a controversial background involving his book The Satanic Verses. Given his experiences, one can see why he felt strongly about the freedom of speech. When his book was published, he was censored when a fatwa was placed on him for what he wrote about Islam in his book. He portrays his attitude towards…

framework to which the masses could compare themselves and others is not a foreign concept. The ideal human birthed from the biblically inspired writings of John Milton in Paradise Lost, is a dauntingly dismal depiction of said standard. The blank verse of the epic is written in such a way as to establish a sense that all occurrences are being observed and recounted to the reader through the eyes…

current existence is less than what its founder had wanted it to be. With rules that have been adapted to philosophy and religion, Thelema has been passed up by philosophers, scholars, and the general public who merely write Thelema off as some type of Satanic, witchcraft type of religion for people who are crazy. However, Thelema is an intricate religion that should be further studied and understood…

joining, of dead human beings (saints)” (Brown 1). Perhaps saints form another link for believers still alive today to the spiritual realm beyond our own earthly realm, while still showing no indication of conjuring saints or asking them to perform satanic acts or displays of…

Time’, ‘space’, ‘place’ are some of the frequently used (sometimes misused) terms in literature, and they have been defined in different ways and from various theoretical perspectives. In the colonial discourse, in particular, the concept ‘place’ was closely related to knowledge and power in so far as the process of mapping the ‘other spaces ‘ was deployed to reproduce dominant world view. While the tenants of imperialism are teleological, its practices have always been geographic. As Edward…

teachings of the leaders of their faith, and found it at variance with their limited understanding, they arose to perpetrate such unseemly acts.... Consider Moses! Armed with the rod of celestial dominion, adorned with the white hand of Divine knowledge, and proceeding from the Paran of the love of God, and wielding the serpent of power and everlasting majesty, He shone forth from the Sinai of light upon the world. He summoned all the peoples and kindreds of the earth to the kingdom of eternity,…