Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Kupfuura: Mukupindura kuratidzira, pana 22 January 1989 Rushdie akabudisa chinyorwa muThe Observer icho chakadana Muhammad "mumwe wemapenzi makuru enhau yenyika", asi akacherechedza kuti dzidziso yeIslam inobata Muhammad kuva munhu, uye kwete nenzira yakakwana. Iye akataura kuti bhuku racho harisi "bhuku rinorwisana norudzidziso. Zvisinei, iri kuedza kunyora nezvekutama, kushushikana uye kushanduka. "Musi wa14 Kukadzi 1989 <unk> Zuva raValentine, uyewo zuva remufi weshamwari yake yepedyo Bruce Chatwin <unk> chirevo chinorayira kuurayiwa kwaRushdie chakaziviswa paRadio Tehran naAyatollah Khomeini, mutungamiri wezvokunamata weIran panguva iyoyo, achidana bhuku racho kuti "kuzvidza chiIslam". (Chitsauko IV chebhuku racho chinoratidzira chimiro cheImam ari muutapwa uyo anodzoka kuzokurudzira kumukira kubva kuvanhu vomunyika yake pasina hanya nokuchengeteka kwavo.) Mubayiro wakapiwa nokuda kworufu rwaRushdie, uye iye nokudaro akamanikidzwa kurarama pasi pokudzivirirwa namapurisa kwamakore anoverengeka. Musi wa 7 Kurume 1989, United Kingdom neIran vakagura hukama hwehukama pamusoro pekukakavadzana kwaRushdie. Paakabvunzwa paBBC Radio 4 kuti apindure kutyisidzira, Rushdie akati, "Kutaura chokwadi, ndinoshuva kuti dai ndakanyora bhuku rinotsoropodza", uye "Ndine urombo kwazvo kuti zvinofanira kunge zvakaitika. Hazvisi zvechokwadi kuti bhuku iri rinozvidza chiIslam. Ndinokahadzika zvikuru kuti Khomeini kana kuti mumwe munhu upi noupi muIran akaverenga bhuku racho kana kuti mamwe mashoko akasarudzwa asina kurongwa". Gare gare, akanyora kuti akanga "achizvikudza, ipapo uye nguva dzose", pamusoro pemashoko iwayo; nepo iye asina kunzwa bhuku rake rakanga richitsoropodza zvikuru chiIslam, "chitendero chine vatungamiriri vakazvibata nenzira iyi chingangodaro chaigona kushandisa kutsoropodza kuduku". Kubudiswa kwebhuku uye fatwā kwakakonzera mhirizhonga munyika yose, nezvitoro zvemabhuku zvakabhombwa. Nharaunda dzechiMuslim munyika dzinoverengeka dzokuMadokero dzakaita misangano yavose, dzichipisa makopi ebhuku racho. Vanhu vanoverengeka vaiita basa rokushandura kana kubudisa bhuku racho vakarwiswa, vakakuvadzwa zvakakomba, uye vakatopondwa. Vanhu vakawanda vakafa mumhirizhonga mune dzimwe nyika. Pasinei zvapo nengozi yakaunzwa nefatwa, Rushdie...  Mubvunzo: Chii chakaitika kuvanhu vaida kushandura kana kuti kubudisa bhuku racho?
vakarwiswa, vakakuvadzwa zvakakomba, uye kunyange kuurawa