The MagazineLiterary SuicideHow multiculturalism strangles freedom of speech.Jan 3, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16
• By ELIZABETH POWERS
 From Fatwa to Jihad  Salman Rushdie confers with Bono, 2003. Photo Credit: Evan Agostini / Getty Images The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath: by Kenan Malik Melville, 288 pp., $25
Daniel Pipes’s The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West appeared in 1990, when tensions provoked by The Satanic Verses were still running high. Even after two decades it remains the most balanced account of the events, but it bears mentioning here for another reason: While Pipes pointed out the tendency of radicals to dominate the “Islamic arena,” and asserted that the affair marked the emergence of Muslims living in Europe as a political force, he concluded on a sanguine note: “The ayatollah’s accomplishments must not be exaggerated. The global fear of early 1989 is not likely to be soon repeated. . . . The Satanic Verses is likely to remain without match.” As Kenan Malik puts the matter here, however, “the Rushdie affair was a warning that the seeds of the Iranian Revolution were being scattered successfully across the globe.” To read more, you must be a Weekly Standard Subscriber We're Sorry,
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