His Weapon is A pen

     Salman Rushdie is an Indian-British novelist who has published The Satanic Verses in 1988. Roughly, the content of this book provokes Islam. After the book had published, Salman and issuer of the book received the death sentence by Ruhollah Khomeini who was the paramount leader in Iran until he died in 1989. The death sentence is called “Fatwa” in Islam. After Ruhollah died, the death sentence did not become invalid because the death sentence can be withdrawn only the person in question who sentenced can do. The foundation in Iran announced to the one that had succeeded in the Rashdie murder the prize from a million to three million dollars that they would give it. After he received the fatwa, he did not go to public places.  He wrote one short collection while it was concealing himself underground.  The story collection is called East, West.  The stories consist of nine unique stories, and three of those are the story of east which is stories of India's average life.  On the other hand, stories of west are about Britain and other European stories with caricature and fable.  Furthermore, there are three more stories in the book that are about mixture of west and east.  One story from the stories of west is called The Prophet's Hair.  The story is very mysterious.

     The story begins in the most poor street in the city.  The main character, Atta, and his sister, Huma, are looking for a thief.  Atta's and Huma's family is pretty rich, however, all they say is "where may I hire a thief?" (Rushdie 37).  Unfortunately, Atta was attacked by the thug while he was looking for a thief.  After that, instead of Atta, Huma tried to hire a thief, and she could hire a thief.  Why did they look for a thief?  One day, Atta's dad became weird person after he brought the hair which is called the prophet's hair.  Actually, the hair is relic of famous prophet's hair.  The hair was stolen from Hazrattobal buddhist temple.  His dad founded and brought it back to his house.  Then, suddenly, he became extremely severe and merciless, and also the discord was brought in to the home.  Once, Atta had tried to steal the hair after his dad brought it back to his house.  However, Atta failed to steal it.  After the failure, Because he is watching it more than before, it is difficult for Atta to steal the hair as long as it is not a professional either.

     “Freedom of Expression” is not a free-for-all. It requires responsibilities respect” (Burton 111).  As Burton says, I am not sure if Rushdie kept the rule when he published The Satanic Verses in 1988.  After all, a rule is made by high-class people.  Therefore, he expressed himself by publishing books.  However, he did not have respect of the culture and responsibility of publishing the book.  I can say that Rushdie is on purpose to publish the book to attack system of Islam.