Controversy In Salman Rushdie's The Satanic

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses addresses much more than the infamous controversy within Islam. It is about nationalism, migration, religion, postmodernism, politics, rebirth, hybridization, transformation, compromise, and Islam. However, the great controversy of the Satanic verses, as portrayed in Rushdie's novel, serves as the template from which all the other issues can be examined. Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa, likewise, can be seen as an expected response that seems to fit the themes addressed in the novel. The typical Western opinion that the Ayatollah's reaction is representative of "backwards" Islam is also an ironic manifestation of the novel's themes. Rushdie is best described as a chef who concocted an elaborate recipe for controversy. Like a bitter apostate Christian who attends church to ask blasphemous questions, he even intended to cause this controversy in order to bring more
The women of the brothel parallel (and thus mock) the act of circumambulation of the kabah by encircling the central fountain in their compound. Rushdie challenges the most sacred of sacred things in Islam, the Quran's inspiration by the archangel Gabriel himself.
This is not an all-inclusive list of the various spices in this novel, but Rushdie seemed to be unable to make up his mind about his intent regarding these basic issues surrounding the portrayal of Submission/Islam. For example, he explained in the Indian newspaper India Today:
I have changed names. I have given the name of an Egyptian temple, Abu Simbel, to the leader of Mecca. I have not called the cities by their names… the image out of which the good grew was of the prophet going to the mountain and not being able to tell the difference between the angel and the devil. The book is also about the wrestling match which takes place between the