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The usual tiresome Muslim furor over anything deemed insufficiently respectful of their religion, this time over Queen Elizabeth’s daring to knight author Salman Rushdie, makes me want to read his book "The Satanic Verses," which I admit never appealed to me before. I thought his Iranian death sentence years ago mostly a publicity stunt. But threatening rioting and suicide bombings over the book all these years later finally makes it interesting to me.