After some pushing, Butt admits that he still finds Rushdie’s work offensive today, but no longer wants to punch him on the nose. This cheap propaganda piece is a good view on a growing a part of british society you don't often see. We just thought he was the bad guy. All rights reserved. As it faithfully recalls the facts and rapid escalation of anti-Rushdie protests, from the book burnings in Bradford to riots on the streets of Islamabad, and the infamous fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, it takes the shape of any number of contemporary documentaries – at first. I think if we as a community are able to stomach these debates – and that means around things that we hold sacred – then we'll truly put the whole thing to bed. Mobeen Azhar explores the effects of Salman Rushdie’s novel and fatwa on his community – and poses complex questions about free speech, Wed 27 Feb 2019 22.00 GMT There was also a Lollywood film released in 1990, International Gorillay. Azhar frames it as a personal journey and his interviews are largely framed as informal chats, rather than journalistic grillings. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. But, like Dooley, this means Azhar can get the goods, and he does so again and again. The broadcaster and journalist Mobeen Azhar, a radio presenter on the BBC Asian Network, who also won a Bafta for Muslims Like Us in 2017, was a child growing up in Huddersfield when The Satanic Verses was published in 1988. I had a chat with Mobeen ahead of the documentary airing tonight on BBC Two. Mobeen Azhar examines the lasting effects of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. There was a game – it sounds really odd, but it was quite innocently played. Photo: VICE Studios / BBC Two. The broadcaster and journalist Mobeen Azhar, a radio presenter on … (TV Movie 2019). But when he puts a version of that argument to the man who first burned The Satanic Verses, who demonstrates how he did it – he had to soak it in paraffin to keep the pages alight – he finds that, ultimately, he has few regrets. Use the HTML below. If there's another bombing, we can’t keep saying "but Islam Is the religion of peace". I certainly didn't expect, in this day and age, in a public space, for someone to grab the book in my hand, run away with it, rip it and try to set it on fire, which is what happened. There are so many memorable interviewees – who was your favourite?We tracked down Mohammed Siddique, the original book burner. By signing up to the VICE newsletter you agree to receive electronic communications from VICE that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content. He was lovely and very hospitable. Sometimes that means engaging in really difficult questions. View production, box office, & company info. There are a number of gripping interviews, in which difficult questions are posed and people are challenged without any sense of being needlessly inflammatory. In some ways, this is the Stacey Dooley approach to film-making, a deformalisation of whatever a documentary once was, in favour of a new, looser shape. Rushdie only appears in archive footage, which is a shame because we don’t get to hear his own dissection of the past three decades. Even when I spoke to him about the images of him setting fire to the book being beamed around the world and the Iranian [religious figures] watching that on the news, he kind of smiled and was like, "Oh, that’s crazy." Protests were held, the book was banned in numerous countries, fire-bombs were hurled through stockists' windows and the novel's Japanese translator was stabbed to death. Many Muslims accused Rushdie of blasphemy, and a fatwa was famously issued calling for the author's death. 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