[lit-ideas] Re: bombing for sex

--- carol kirschenbaum <cskir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Revisiting an old issue,
> do you believe that Salman Rushdie's literary
> creation in _Satanic Verses_
> [Mohammed's erotic dream] was racist and
> anti-Islamic? A fatwa--those were
> the good ol' days. We all took our time back then,
> and really played a
> situation for its dramatic import.

*I am afraid that I have not read the Satanic Verses,
so I cannot tell. Mohammad's erotic dream would not
necessarily be anti-Islamic, as some of the Haddith
feature Mohammad as being quite sexually active. Wish
that I were him.

O.K.

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