College Daze: Reporting the News - 'Satanic Verses' cause students to examine rights (Catalyst, March 9, 1989)
The author during his days as a journalism student at Miami-Dade Community College, South Campus (now Miami-Dade College, Kendall Campus) Photo Credit: Prof. Peter C. Townsend (Author's collection) This article was originally published in the March 9, 1989 issue of Catalyst , Miami-Dade Community College, South Campus' student newspaper. It was the author's only Page One - Lead article during his four academic years on staff. 'Satanic Verses' cause students to examine rights Alex Diaz Granados Staff Writer Although British author Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses has been pulled from most major bookstores' shelves after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini sentenced the Indian-born writer to death, most students and faculty here say that the book should be available to the public. Rushdie's novel is the target of violent protests not only in Pakistan and other Islamic countries but also in the United States. As a ...