Satanic Verses: The controversy isn’t Rushdie or the Fatwa. It’s the Western Eye and Forgotten Sight.

With Salman Rushdie in the press for his new book on the knife attack that blinded him, there’s a renewed conversation on the story that sparked the attack: The Satanic Verses.

Book burnings, death sentences, and attempted assassinations. How did an Islamic theocracy and an atheist writer with a target on his back both completely miss the mark on Islam’s most tabooed origin story?

The answer is colonialism and good old-fashioned fundamentalism.

Published in 2023, in The Song of the Human Heart: Dawn of the Dark Feminine in Islam, I offer an alternate take on the Satanic verses. I offer a theologically-sound interpretation that nests the world’s second largest faith in the heart of vulnerability.

I invite you to join me in the wilderness of faith, where Islam’s most tabooed story becomes its most powerful testament to vulnerability. In the link below, I’ve shared the chapters from my book that offer a re-telling of a deadly controversy.

Read for free here: The Real Story Behind the Satanic Verses.

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INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM: How the 34-Year-Old Fatwa Against Salman Rushdie Marks the Timelessness of the Islamist War Against the West. Reflections on the 22nd anniversary of the September 11th attacks.