Anonymous ID: 646cc2 April 16, 2020, 11:36 a.m. No.8814512   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>8814447

POTUS is using corona crisis to focus on the role played by ordinary peopleโ€“like clerks and cashiers. And today, truckers. Consolidating his base and highlighting the importance of normal (non-elite) Americans. He's reassuring people about the supply chain and championing those who maintain it.

Go POTUS!!

Anonymous ID: 646cc2 April 16, 2020, 11:47 a.m. No.8814730   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4745 >>4782 >>4972

Thirty years on, why โ€˜The Satanic Versesโ€™ remains so controversial

September 24, 2018 6.19am EDT

Myriam Renaud

Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Thought and Ethics, University of Chicago

 

Disclosure statement

Myriam Renaud is affiliated with the Parliament of the World's Religions.

 

One of the most controversial books in recent literary history, Salman Rushdieโ€™s โ€œThe Satanic Verses,โ€ was published three decades ago this month and almost immediately set off angry demonstrations all over the world, some of them violent.

 

A year later, in 1989, Iranโ€™s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, ordering Muslims to kill the author. Born in India to a Muslim family, but by then a British citizen living in the U.K., Rushdie was forced to go into protective hiding for the greater part of a decadeโ€ฆ..

 

https://theconversation.com/thirty-years-on-why-the-satanic-verses-remains-so-controversial-102321

Anonymous ID: 646cc2 April 16, 2020, 12:04 p.m. No.8815006   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>8814972

Yes, it's an opinion piece. And probably written from a liberal POV. But i posted this to start a conversation (I never read The Satanic Verses, maybe some other anons haveโ€“or know of a conservative discussion on it.)