Make sense of the following events (not exhaustive)- (Also identify X, Y and Z)
# February 12, 1989: Six people are killed and 100 injured when 10,000 attack the American Cultural Center in Islamabad, Pakistan protesting X
# February 13, 1989: One person is killed and over 100 injured in anti-X riots in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
May 1989: Popular musician Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) indicates his support for the Y and states during a British television documentary, according to the New York Times, that if X shows up at his door, he "might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like... I'd try to phone the Z and tell him exactly where this man is." Yusuf Islam later denied giving support to the Y
July 1991: Hitoshi Igarashi is stabbed to death; and Ettore Capriolo is seriously wounded.
# July 2, 1993: Thirty-seven Turkish intellectuals and locals participating in the Pir Sultan Abdal Literary Festival, die when the conference hotel in Sivas, Turkey, is burnt down by a mob of 2000. Participating in the conference was Aziz Nesin, who the mob demanded be handed over for summary execution. The mob set the hotel alight when Nesin was not turned over. Ironically, Nesin escaped the fire and survived
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X is either Salman Rushdie or "The Satanic verses". I am going with Rushdie since there is a mention of X showing up at a door!
Y, I am guessing, is the fatwa against Rushdie and the worldwide protests against "The satanic verses".
For Z, I'd go with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who ordered the most famous of the fatwas and put a price on Rushdie's head.
Whereas the first 3 events are protests against "The satanic verses" itself, the last two are probably against translations/other works perceived as blasphemous...
good one kane ..
Y = Fatwa
X = Rushdie
Z = Khomeini ?
I think Igarashi & Nesin translated the novel for Rushdie into Japanese & Turkish respectively ..
Looks like mobs attacking writers/ artists, for example those who dared to criticize Islam, expressed their take on Islam?
X could be Salman Rushdie
Y -- Al Qaeda ..??
Z -- Bin Laden?
X == Salman Rushdie
Z == Ayatollah Khomeini
Y == ??
X - Salman Rushdie
Y - Fatwa
Z - ? (Religious Fundamentalists?)
My Guess is that X is Salman Rushdie. So that would make Y the Fatwa issued against him. I am not sure what/who Z ( The religious office which issued the fatwa)is.
So is the connection authors who were killed/sought out to be killed for their (blasphemous) works.
My guess is that all events relate to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.
X = Rushdie, Y = fatwa, Z = Ayatollah Khomeni
Not sure how the last 2 events connect, but it could be that these people supported Rushdie, and they were attacked because of that.
Cat Stevens made some controversial remarks about Salman Rushdie (among many other controversial shit he did.. why couldnt he just stick to making great music!) So my guess would be:
X = Salman Rushdie
Y = Fatwa
Z = Some Islamic cleric head?
Connect: the first two protests were about Salman Rushdie and Satanic Verses.
The Aziz Nesin and Hitoshi dudes was also on fatwas?
X is Salman Rushdie, and all these events are some form of protests against Rushdie. Y is probably the ayatollah. Dunno about Z.
X= Salma Rushdie
Y= fatwa
Z= Ayatollah Khomeini
The 2 events at the end were the Japanese, Italian and Turkish translators for the novel. Congrats to all those who got the question right (Rahul and Prats got all of it. the others got most of it)
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