Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses

In the second unit of the Forbidden Books course, we talked about the religious aspect of the censorship of books. We only went on a trip to a mosque in Evanston and that was extremely interesting. We learned about the religion and we got to eat some very good food and got to have a quick tour of the facility. It was very interesting to learn more about the Muslim religion.
The topic I chose for this Action Project was Iran: The Satanic Verses; Written by Salman Rushdie. This book was censored in 1889 for being offensive to the Muslim Holy book and referring to Muhammad as satan. I learned many things from this project. The most important thing being that he was under a death sentence by the Islamic government and had to be protected by the UK government for 4 years. In my opinion, censorship is never justified. People should not be able to control what other people say or do no matter what. Freedom of speech is a right that everyone has and it needs to be respected by everyone. Everyone has a right to speak what is on their mind and they shouldn't have to worry about death, jail time, etc. just for writing something that they wanted.