This writer, Shajahan Madampat, gloatingly constructs his comments on a serious subject such as "freedom of expression" based on his assumption that tabloid-type libelous trash by a British police officer can be judged to be the same as a work of fiction by a world-class novelist. Notice Madampat's leading suggestion of false opposition in the paragraph below between a living person, an author, and fictional characters within a dream-sequence of a fictional character depicted in a fiction by that author:
Echoing his Muslim critics, Rushdie says in an interview with The Guardian: 'This is not a free speech issue, this is libel — there is a difference between those two things. I can defend the truth, I will not have my character destroyed and presented to the world as something that it is not. I am not trying to prevent him from publishing his stupid book but if they publish it as it is there will be consequences and there will be a libel action.' Contrast this indignation with the Satanic Verses which describes a brothel in which all the sex workers take the names of the Prophet's wives, who are revered by Muslims as the mothers of the believers.
'He is portraying me as mean, nasty, tight-fisted, arrogant and extremely unpleasant. In my humble opinion I am none of those things,' says the writer, who used the derogatory name Mahound for the prophet, a term that smacked of the crusades.
Madampat is ignorant and flat wrong like many of Rushdie's Muslim critics! Mahound, the name for the Prophet, does not just 'smack' of the crusades. It comes from the crusades. It is lifted out from Medieval European Romance fiction composed around the time of the crusades. I have read the medieval European Romance literature and know the context of the various mis-spelt names of the Prophet in them. Rushdie deliberately chose this name to show how
Like all Rushdie's Muslim critics, Madampat is oblivious of Western racism of which Rushdie as well as they are victims. That callow British police officer is quite peeved at having to protect Rushdie in his line of duty during the international fracas in 1990. He cannot understand what the fuss is about and is green with envy at the fame and star-status of a 'coloured Paki' which is all Rushdie was to him.
---- Farida Majid
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