Salman Rushdie Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. June 19, 1947
Birthday: June 19
When I was writing The Satanic Verses, if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
source: "A translated man". Interview with James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006. 
topic: Writing, Islam, Satanic, Radical Islam, Satanic Verses
