* 1989 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.

* 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US $ 3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 pronounced a death sentence on Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses.

According to Ibn Ishaq's controversial account of the Satanic Verses ( q. v.

He defended Salman Rushdie after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned Rushdie to death in 1989, but also criticized his Satanic Verses as " insulting " to Islam.

The appearance of The Satanic Verses brought back up the controversy surrounding Mahfouz's novel Children of Gebelawi.

His favorite books are ( in order ) The Golden Argosy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Satanic Verses, McTeague, Lord of the Flies, Bleak House, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Raj Quartet, Light in August, and Blood Meridian.

* July 2 – An integrist mob sets fire to the hotel where The Satanic Verses translator Aziz Nesin resides in Sivas, Turkey, killing 37.

** Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini encourages Muslims to kill The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

** Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US $ 3-million bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

* March 7 – Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.

The first use of the expression ' Satanic Verses ' is attributed to Sir William Muir ( 1858 ).

The Satanic Verses incident is reported in the tafsir and the sira-maghazi literature dating from the first two centuries of Islam, and is reported in the respective tafsīr corpuses transmitted from almost every Qur ' anic commentator of note in the first two centuries of the hijra.

Due to its defective chain of narration, the tradition of the Satanic Verses never made it into any of the canonical hadith compilations ( though see below for possible truncated versions of the incident that did ).

The incident of the Satanic Verses, according to him, conforms to the common theme of persecution followed by isolation of the prophet-figure.

This entire matter was a mere footnote to the back-and-forth of religious debate, and was rekindled only when Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, made headline news.

Rubin further argues that this is inherently illogical without the Satanic Verses in the recitation, given that in the accepted version of verses Q. 53: 19-23, the pagans ' goddesses are attacked.

* The " Satanic Verses " story was never taken seriously by Islamic scholars

Salman Rushdie quotes Fanon in The Satanic Verses.

Several non-Jewish authors share Wiesel's concerns about God's nature, including Salman Rushdie ( The Satanic Verses, Shalimar the Clown ) and Anne Provoost ( In the Shadow of the Ark ):

His most controversial novel The Satanic Verses ( 1989 ), was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad.

* February 24-Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US $ 3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

* Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses

See The Satanic Verses for the best-known story regarding these three goddesses.

* March 22 – Teachers at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the schoolchildren ( the charges are later dropped as completely unfounded ).

While expected to be experts in communicating the Satanic philosophy, members of the Priesthood are not required to speak on behalf of the Church of Satan, and may even choose to keep their affiliation and rank secret in order to better serve their personal goals, as well as those of the organization.

However, some bands such as Sorhin keep the Satanic elements of black metal but are influenced musically by more recent folk tunes.

# East of Ealing ( 1984 )-Pooley and Omally are forced to deal with a high-tech Satanic takeover of Earth by way of barcoding the entire population, aided by a temporally-relocated version of Sherlock Holmes.

More credible estimates are about 10, 000 adult members of religious Satanic churches, temples and grottos as well as 10, 000 solitary practitioners of Satanism ; Rivera's claims of ritualistic abuse, conspiracy and criminal activity remain unsubstantiated.

In debate are both the existence of backmasked Satanic messages and their purported ability to subliminally affect listeners.

In the story it is frequented by drugged-out and reputedly Satanic groupies of the " two-umlaut " heavy metal music band, Pöyzen Böyzen, who are too intoxicated with angel dust to realize they are poisoning themselves with the toxic waste that was dumped there.

Soon after Coven created their Satanic Mass recording, the Church of Satan began creating their own Black Masses, two of which are available to the public.

All three of these Satanic Masses ( the one by Coven and the two by the Church of Satan ) contain the Latin phrase " In nomine Dei nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi ", as well as the phrases " Rege Satanas " and " Ave Satanas " ( which, incidentally, are also the only three Latin phrases which appeared in the Church of Satan's 1968 recording, " The Satanic Mass ").

In the Spanish Satanic comedy film The Day of the Beast ( film ) | The Day of the Beast ( 1995 ), the Puerta de Europa towers of Madrid are said to be shaped in the form of the Devil's signature.

It is obvious that no one can collect any money off classical standards of beauty and form most of the time, so they are discouraged in a consumer society ; but an eye for beauty, for balance, is an essential Satanic tool and must be applied for greatest magical effectiveness.

Of the books he has written, most famous are a " learned critique " of the Salman Rushdie novel Satanic Verses, a book in support of Ferdowsi ( and against attacks by Ahmad Shamlou ), and a book on Zaynab bint Ali's role in and after Aashurah.

For some charismatic Christians, deliverance ministries are activities carried out by individuals or groups aimed at solving problems related to demons and spirits, especially possession of the body and soul, but not the spirit as ministries like Ellel Ministries International, Don Dickerman Ministries and Neil T. Anderson explicitly teach that a Christian can not have demons in their spirit because the Holy Spirit lives there, though they can have demons in their body or soul due to inner emotional wounds, sexual abuse, or Satanic ritual abuse.

Santino is the leader of a coven of Satanic vampires, the members of which hold a common belief that they are meant to be the scourge of humankind.

There are multiple stories of the birth of The Satanic Bible.

Rand's influence on LaVeyan Satanism is very apparent in the Nine Satanic Statements, to the point where some, including Schreck, assert that the Statements are simply unacknowledged paraphrase of Rand's thoughts.

They are the names that, according to LaVey, are most useful in Satanic rituals.

Details for the various Satanic rituals are explained in The Book of Belial, and lists of necessary objects ( such as clothing, altars, and the symbol of Baphomet ) are given.