Even though the author provides possible answers to what the identity of the dark-skinned image of a boy is/was from what she refers to as “panoply of racist libels”, the possibilities, also couched in the terms “might”, “suggest” and “could”, are taken as a given as she determined a priori – i.e. stereotypically – that image is of an “African American”.
Ni maarufu sana kama mtungaji wa riwaya. Riwaya ya The Satanic Verses inakidhalilisha moja kwa moja Kitabu Kitakatifu cha Waislamu yaani Quran. Alikejeli na hata kumtukana matusi ya nguoni Mtume Muhammad. Umma wa Waislamu ulichukizwa sana wakati wasemaji na serikali za Magharibi walishangilia na kumuunga mkono na kumtetea kwa msingi kwamba msanii ana haki na uhuru wa mawazo, freedom of expression, na lazima haki yake itetewe na kulindwa. Umma wa Waislamu walifikiri tofauti.