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Mungkin masih terbayang dalam benak kita tentang satu novel karya salman rushdie yang berjudul "ayat-ayat setan". Novel kontroversial yang menyinggung Islam ini berakibat kepada pengeluaran fatwa hukuman mati bagi salman rushdie oleh Imam Khomeini. Ketika membaca berita di koran The Times of India edisi Rabu, 23 Pebruari 2005, yang berita aslinya saya ikutkan dalam posting ini, saya merasa heran ketika ternyata seorang salman rushdie yang mengatakan bahwa apa yang ditulis didalam novel ayat ayat setan nya tersebut hanyalah sebuah ungkapan kebebasan berbicara, bereaksi kasar atas tulisan tentang istrinya, Padma Laksmi, yang dibuat oleh seorang jurnalis fashion dan lifestyle NYT, Trebay. Rushdie berkata: "If you ever write mean things about my wife again, I'll come after you with a baseball bat," the British tabloid, Sun , quoted. Jadi menurut saya, reaksi Imam Khomeini saat itu tentang pengeluaran fatwa hukuman mati bagi salman rushdi adalah sebuah reaksi yang wajar dan tidak seharusnya menjadi polemik dan kontroversi yang saat itu begitu banyak mendapatkan reaksi pro dan kontra apabila ternyata sang penulis sendiri juga mempunyai reaksi yang serupa ketika "bagian" dari dirinya dikritisi. salam hangat dari India Qisai New Delhi berikut ini kutipan berita yang saya refer diatas http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1028216,curpg- 1.cms Rusdhie's fury knows no bounds LONDON: Salman Rushdie has made his ultimate offering of love to his wife of 10 months, the beauteous Padma Lakshmi, by reportedly standing up for her and threatening caveman-style retribution if journalists continue to see her as no more than a luxurious piece of capitalist eye candy. Rushdie, 57, and no stranger to journalistic bile, reportedly threatened a New York Times ( NYT ) fashion and lifestyle journalist with dire retribution unless he laid off Lakshmi, the Tamil-American model-turned-actress 25 years his junior. Trebay, whose teasing piece in the NYT , sketched an eponymous picture of a "brand-name goddess basking in the moment (of media glory)", apparently offended Rushdie when he mused that her silky sinuousness was the perfect symbol of "the love of money and commodity." The comment enraged Rushdie and drew him to drift up to Trebay at a function in New York, where the novelist and his fourth wife now live. "If you ever write mean things about my wife again, I'll come after you with a baseball bat," the British tabloid, Sun , quoted Rushdie as saying. Rushdie's ire, which had obviously festered, came nearly a fortnight after Trebay's light-hearted comments on Lakshmi. The tabloid was silent on whether or not Rushdie was serious about his outrage and his overwhelming desire for a direct physical expression of it. On Tuesday, Rushdie too was silent about the story, which made its way round the world as a sign the celebrated novelist may probably love his luminous Lakshmi not wisely, but too well. Rushdie's silence was in marked contrast to a growing tendency of late, to be supremely quick off the bat with rejoinders to journalistic tittle-tattle. Before news of the threatened baseball bat episode broke, Rushdie was embroiled in a public, bad-tempered exchange of letters in The Sunday Times , London, because a book reviewer had dredged up a four-year-old piece on Rajasthan in which Rushdie described the tourist honeytrap as "colourful". Reviewer Patrick French used Rushdie's careless Western categorisation to show the Mumbai-born writer as an out-of- touch "insider-outsider". Instead of ignoring the slur, Rushdie wrote to the London paper, with the caterwauling complaint: "I should be used to being misrepresented by now..." Wags said it may be time to stand by for more Rushdie rant and retort. But many believe the novelist's defence of Lakshmi is of a piece with a very public, real and abiding passion for the woman he has lived with for six years. Fury was a loosely-autobigraphical novel about an older British Indian scholarly man who leaves Blighty, wife and child for New York and new beginnings with the divinely beautiful young Neela. In the novel, the ageing, unlikely hero springs to Neela's defence when she executes a madcap plan to help with a revolutionary uprising. Though a piece of journalistic prose may not be in the same league, Rushdie may be letting real life finally follow his magic-realism fiction. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give the gift of life to a sick child. 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