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THE number 1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERA Finalist for the George Orwell Book Prize“It could be ridiculous to consider that the book may cause riots,” Salman Rushdie declared merely weeks prior to the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses. But that’s precisely what ultimately occurred. In Britain, protests began only weeks following the book’s book, with Muslim protestors, primarily from immigrant backgrounds, arriving by the hundreds from the outer suburbs of London and from England’s aged commercial facilities--places like Bradford, Bolton, and Macclesfield--to denounce Rushdie’s book as blasphemous and to burn it. In February of 1988, the protests spread to Pakistan, where riots broke out, killing five.